Minerva Reef. Fourteen Desperate Weeks with the Castaway Tongans. By OLAF RUHEN.

Minerva Reef. Fourteen Desperate Weeks with the Castaway Tongans. By OLAF RUHEN. 

Publisher: Minerva 1963, first edition.

Good hardback with jacket, binding firm, no inscriptions, some rubbing, bumping and fading to edges, minor marks.
Dust jacket is rubbed, creased, marked, faded and chipped with small tears.

On the night of 7 July 1962 the twenty ton cutter Tuaikaepau, sailing from Tonga to Auckland, ran hard upon the outer edge of Minerva Reef, 380 miles south of Suva in Fiji. Heavy seas and the sharp teeth of the coral quickly broke the cutter to pieces, and her complement of seventeen Tongans found themselves without even a small boat on a reef that was totally submerged except during the few hours of low tide each day. 

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