Wellington Harbour

Remarkable View Ltd, 1996. Good used condition with dust jacket.

This book is a history of a port and of the relationship of that port with its harbour. Its scope is broad. It moves from Kupe's voyaging to container cranes, following a course that examines the growth of a city with no great hinterland. It is a city which has had to live on politics and trade rather than the fat of the land. The story moves from whaling to frozen meat; from coal to the conflicts of 1890, 1913 and 1951; from subdivision at Eastbourne and Miramar to townhouses of Te Aro; from the flock of small coasters in the Cook Strait trade to the conveyor belt of the Interislander Line; from the days when the Harbour Board ruled the port to the return of the city to the water's edge through the Lambton Harbour project. Across this backdrop David Johnson traces the development of Wellington as a port, linking it with its surroundings, placing its trade in context as part of New Zealand's maritime history...