Beyond the Marble Mountain : Tales of Early Golden Bay, Motueka and Nelson

Millar, J. Halket

Verlag: R. Lucas & Son [1949], Nelson, 1949

Beschreibung

Previous owners' inscription and address on front endpaper. Some foxing to dust-jacket. 30mm tear at head of dust-jacket spine. 10mm loss at head and tail of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 155, [1 (blank)] pages. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 215mm x 135mm. A "collection of reminiscences of the Golden Bay district in Nelson." New Zealand regional history. Illustrated. Contents: Start of a Colourful Life; Umbrella Serves as First House; Problems Among the Maoris; Lone White Family of 1842; Arthur Wakefield Helps; Tragic Rehearsal for Wairau; Building of a Boat; His Wife Stops a Maori Battle; Feeling Running High; Fight for a Maori Princess; Doll Creates Terror; Dire Results of Sampling Lime; Gold Fever Burns; Trials of an Early Housekeeper; First Wharf at Waitapu; Approach was a Series of Islands; Great Timber Cargoes; The Busy Days of Sail; To the Cobb on a Wet Day; Forest Keens on Rocky Pinnacles; First Settler at Takaka; An Intensely Human Document; A Terrifying Experience; Firts Night in the Dense Bush; Lone Vigil in a Storm; Ten Days Without Fuel and Meet; Business and Politics; The Initial Building Societies; A Little Boy Comes Ashore; First Farmers for the Moutere; Ventures in Land-Buying; Dense Forest Tract at 27/6 an Acre; Timber Scheme Crashes; First Cattle on Marble Mountain; Whitebat Climbed Posts; Watch Hung on Tree for 40 Years; Takaka's Train Did 8 m.p.h.; Driver Walked on Frosty Days; Main Road a River of Mud; Sore Trials of Family in the 70's; Food Supply Ran Low; The Whisky Buried on Farewell Spit; Great Task of 1885; Danger Lurks in Green, Still Depths; The Church at Motueka; The History of St. Thomas's Surveyed. [Reference: Bagnall M1630 - "Selected articles from the 'Nelson Evening Mail.'"]. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 23360

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Beyond the Marble Mountain : Tales of Early ...

Verlag: R. Lucas & Son [1949], Nelson

Erscheinungsdatum: 1949

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-

Auflage: First Edition.