$55.99
- Hardcover
400 pages
- Release Date
2 December 2020
Summary
A BOOK FOR ALL NEW ZEALANDERS WHO FEEL CONNECTED TO THE SEA.
This year New Zealand’s National Maritime Museum will be in the thick of the action when the Americas Cup defence comes to Auckland. This beautiful book, photographed by Jane Ussher, surveys its collection and explores New Zealand maritime history through 100 fascinating and wide-ranging objects.
From shipbuilding tools and Peter Blake’s first trophy, to menu cards from the glory days of ocean liners and exquisite mo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780995131873 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0995131872 |
| Author: | Frances Walsh |
| Publisher: | Massey University Press |
| Imprint: | Massey University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 2 December 2020 |
| Weight: | 1.48kg |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 214mm x 289mm |
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Critics Review
Written with great style and rigour.
* New Zealand Listener *The design of this book is gorgeous: splashes on safety orange and sea-blue, steady lines to keep the eye on the horizon, words stacked like masts or fanned like galleon sails. Riches are laid out amid typefaces reminiscent of ancient voyages and maps, or clean, crisp and shipshape. And such pearls! … It’s a stunning collection of 102 witty and compelling stories — a real treasure trove.
* Art News NZ *Like the best of museums, it contains a wealth of treasures to surprise and delight, to be revisited multiple times, and inspire the reader to their own journeys of further exploration.
– Sarah Ell * Kete *Frances Walsh
Frances Walsh is an Auckland writer and researcher. She has been on the staff of Metro magazine and in 2011 published her first book, Inside Story: A History of the New Zealand Housewife (Random House New Zealand).
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