Shipwreck
Subtitle: tales of survival, courage & calamity at sea
By: Louise Callan
Contributors: Greenstone Pictures; Television New Zealand
Publisher: Hodder Moa Beckett
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Auckland, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781869587840
Subjects: Shipwrecks; History
Other titles: Shipwreck (Television program)
Description: 'Shipwreck' is about intrepid seamen, settlers, adventurers, traders and explorers; a catalogue of costly mistakes, incompetence and plain bad luck.
Notes: "Shipwreck the book owes its life to Shipwreck the television series, produced by Greenstone Pictures for Television New Zealand's TV One"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (page 144).
Table of contents: title: The tragedy of the Boyd; title: The wreck of the Orpheus; title: The Wreck of the Delaware : Huria's story; title: The Tararua tragedy; title: Black Sunday : the wreck of the Ben Venue; title: The Ariadne agreement; title: Adrift : the lost survivors of the Elingamite; title: Dead Reckoning : the wreck of the Wiltshire; title: The treasure of the Niagara; title: The battle of the Turakina; title: The mystery of the Holmglen.; title: The tragedy of the Boyd ; The wreck of the Orpheus ; The wreck of the Delaware : Huria's story ; The Tararua tragedy ; Black Sunday : the wreck of the Ben Venue ; The Ariadne agreement ; Adrift : the lost survivors of the Elingamite ; Dead reckoning : the wreck of the Wiltshire ; The treasure of the Niagara.