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Shipwreck : tales of survival, courage & calamity at sea / Louise Callan.

Title
  1. Shipwreck : tales of survival, courage & calamity at sea / Louise Callan.
Published by
  1. Auckland, N.Z. : Hodder Moa Beckett, 2000.
Author
  1. Callan, Louise.

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Additional authors
  1. Greenstone Pictures.
  2. Television New Zealand.
Description
  1. 144 p. : ill. (some col.), ports., facsims.; 21 cm.
Summary
  1. 'Shipwreck' is about intrepid seamen, settlers, adventurers, traders and explorers; a catalogue of costly mistakes, incompetence and plain bad luck.
Uniform title
  1. Shipwreck (Television program)
Subject
  1. Shipwrecks > New Zealand
  2. New Zealand > History
Genre/Form
  1. History
Contents
  1. 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 -- The battle of the Turakina -- The mystery of the Holmglen.
Note
  1. "Shipwreck the book owes its life to Shipwreck the television series, produced by Greenstone Pictures for Television New Zealand's TV One"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 144).
Processing action (note)
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