STRAIT OF ADVENTURE by STEPHEN GERARD

STRAIT OF ADVENTURE by STEPHEN GERARD
with a memoir of the author by Stuart Perry

Published by A.H. & A.W. REED
1952 reprint of 1938 first edition

Hardback with dustjacket
151 pages with 33 black & white photographs
Good reading copy, pages discolouring, name cut from endpage, dj as shown

Long out of print, the new edition of this outstanding New Zealand book has been published to meet demand. The 'Strait of Adventure' is Cook Strait and Stephen Gerard's stories all of them founded on fact tell of the many remarkable characters and adventurers who sailed the seas about Wellington and Marlborough many years ago

'Raukawa, the Maoris called it,' wrote Mr Gerard; 'Cook Strait is the white man's name.'

In all the great South Sea no other waterway so storied and romantic, so treacherous and stormy, so lashed by bitter gales and troubled by restless tides, strewn with the wrecks of ships, haunted with the multitudinous ghosts, of those who perished there through the violent passions of savage men, or by the insensate cruelty of the sea ...

Stories about the many interesting and historical sites and people in the area during the 1920s and 1930s, the whalers, the Maoris, the wrecks...