This is a second-hand hardcover book.

Condition: The dust jacket has heavy surface rubbing, heavy fading, heavy wear to the edges around the spine area, and light creasing. At the top of the first page is a name and inscription written in pen, and a small white sticker covering up another name. The cover has shelf wear and fading to the edges, and there is browning to the edges of the compressed pages. The rest of the book has no faults. The pages are clean and bright.

The dimensions: 198 x 262 mm. Pages: 201 Publisher: A.H & A.W. Reed Ltd. Publication date: 1977 first edition

Servants of the North By Cliff Furniss

Adventures on the coastal trade with the Northern Steam Ship Company

Servants of' the North will have a wide appeal for those to whom ships and the people who sail in them have a special attraction, and to the many people who have a hankering to know more of the past. The book sets out to record the heyday of the coastal steamers, when the little ships of the Northern Steam Ship Company carried passengers and cargo to isolated settlements scattered around the small bays and up the tidal creeks of North Auckland and further south as well, to Wanganui, Whakatane and the Coromandel. From a store of personal memories, and the spare time study of a life-time, Cliff Furniss re-creates scenes from Auckland's colourful past: of the days when skippers listened for the bark of a well-known dog to guide their ships into a fog-bound estuary; when steamers raced neck-to-neck to the only available berth; of the days when ships struck snags and foundered up the far reaches of rivers.

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