By Victor Young
From Baird Maritime:
A high quality collection of photographs and paintings of the ships and ports of New Zealand's Cook Strait from the 1860s until the present.
They are enhanced by a detailed and carefully researched text that well describes the ferries, the waters they worked, the people and the fast changing weather they encountered.
Replete with tales of collisions, groundings, engine failures, bankruptcies and worse, the book covers the good, the bad and the very mediocre of the South Pacific's most famous ferry run. Naturally, the tragic grounding and capsize of the 'Wahine' dominates. That 1968 disaster resulted in the loss of 51 people.
Cook Strait is narrow and bleak but it separates the two halves of New Zealand making it a vital stretch of water. That makes this book an especially important record.
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