Te Anau Anchorage By Lawson Burrows. 1974. First Edition.

Te Anau Anchorage By Lawson Burrows.

Published by John McIndoe Dunedin, 1974. First Edition.

Very good hardback with jacket, bumping to edges and corners. Pages very good. No inscriptions. Jacket is scuffed, and chipped at edges with shelf-wear. 149 pages with b&w illstns.

Tales of time spent in Te Anau operating a tourist launch in Fiordland after the war. Anecdotes of hunting, moonshiners and tourists in the 50's. Here is a highly entertaining story of life at one of the most beautiful southern lakes in New Zealand - Te Anau. And for Lawson Burrows this literally was an 'anchorage' when he settled there after World War II. Within a short time he established a busy tourist launch business on the lake the success of which was assured when he and his partner discovered the beautiful glow-worm caves, now a mecca for visitors to the area. But 'Te Anau Anchorage' is also the tale of rabbiters and musterers, hunters and fishermen, 'hokonui whiskey' and the countless characters who helped give colour to the district. Among those characters Lawson Burrows himself emerges as an adventurous explorer, entrepreneur, but, above all, a delightful raconteur who has spiced his tale with humour and human warmth.

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