White Wings: Immigrant Ships To New Zealand, 1840-1902 by Henry Brett.

White Wings: Immigrant Ships To New Zealand, 1840-1902 by Henry Brett.
 
Published by Reed, Wellington, 1984.

Good hardcover with dust jacket. 
Binding firm, rubbing and bumping, with dents on back board, previous owner's name on ffep and inside front board, light tanning and foxing to pages. 
Jacket is rubbed, creased and marked with some fading.

236 pages. b/w photos.

Condensed edition of the 1924 first ed. Very good clean copy. Small closed tear to the dj which we will fix. Immigrant Ships to New Zealand 1840-1902. More than a thousand ships brought immigrants to New Zealand last century. This book tells the story of 113 of them: the founding settler ships, the fastest and slowest voyages, the tragedies, triumphs and adventures of those who trusted their lives to the white wings of the sea, Appendix shows the passenger sailing ships 1840-1902 listed in chronological order of their first arrival at New Zealand ports.

ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. 

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