Pioneers of Martins Bay : The Story of New Zealand's Most Remote Settlement. By Alice Mckenzie.

Pioneers of Martins Bay : The Story of New Zealand's Most Remote Settlement. By Alice Mckenzie.

Published by Whitcombe and Tombs (1974), Christchurch Third (revised) edition.

Very good hardback with jacket. Some minor marks, rubbing and bumping to edges, inscription to ffep. Dust-jacket is in good condition, minor marks, rubbing and chipping, a couple of closed tears to edges. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine.

Page dimensions: 212 x 136 mm.

"Martins Bay, north of Milford Sound at the mouth of the Hollyford river, was the most isolated settlement in New Zealand when Alice McKenzie's parents took their young fanily there in 1876. Even today, nearly a hundred years since, the region is remote, peopled by a few whitebaiters, fishermen, hunters and trampers. The McKenzies endured severe hardships which are outside the experience of the modern New Zealander. The author describes, for instance, the family's ordeal when her mother was expecting a child during the 'great flood' of 1878. Her father went to bring help and, forced back by a storm-lashed lake and swollen streams, he found his wife on her bed in the flooded house with their two-hour-old son in her arms." - from dust-jacket blurb.