The saltwater highway
Subtitle: the story of ports & shipping in New Zealand
By: Gordon McLauchlan
Publisher: David Bateman
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Albany, Auckland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781869538286
Subjects: Merchant ships; Shipping; Harbors; History
Description: New Zealand, a country 'rinsed by the sea', has a shipping story to tell as long and convoluted as its coastline. Thoroughly researched, with an eye for a good yarn but also with an acute sense of the shifting social and political changes over the years, McLauchlan tells an informative and engaging tale. Divided into five parts, the book covers the early colonial days, the developing (and still functioning) ports, working on the wharves, port reform and the move, in later years, to containers.
Notes: Includes selected bibliography (p. 252) and index.