Pioneers of Martins Bay. Life in New Zealand's Most Remote Settlement. Revised edition 1952

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

Published by Whitcombe and Tombs (1952), Christchurch. Second (revised) edition. 

Good hardback with no jacket, binding firm, some rubbing, bumping and chipping to edges, creasing to spine, small name to ffep, some tanning and foxing.

129 pages, illustrated. 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 family 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. 

ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. 

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