Fiordland by Jack McClenaghan. 1966, first edition.

Fiordland by Jack McClenaghan.

Publisher: Reed, A.H.& A.W., 1966, first edition.

Very good hardback with dust jacket. A little bumping to edges and minor marks, no inscriptions. Jacket is scuffed, rubbed and chipped with a faded spine. 180 pages with photos.

The "EMPTY QUARTER" of New Zealand's South Island is down in the south-west - a rugged, inhospitable country of high rainfall, inaccessible peaks and valleys, deep forest-and, of surpassing grandeur and beauty. No rich farmlands here for pioneers to cultivate. But men have come here for gold and sealskins to harvest succulent whitebait, to hunt wapiti and red deer, to re-discover birds long believed extinct, to revel in superb scenery, and, latterly to harness lakes and rivers for hydro-electric power. Among these men have been many a rare character: Wildlife guardians, explorers, hermits, fishermen. And many notable events that have happened along the lonely coasts and in its empty hinterland-shipwrecks, mysterious disappearances, settlements that failed and are forgotten; and queer stories, still persistent, of a "lost tribe" of Maoris, is still living furtively in the forests. Of all these things Jack Mcclenaghan writes, and writes vividly.

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