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Published by Cape Catley, Limited, Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand, 1985
ISBN 10: 0908561210ISBN 13: 9780908561216
Seller: BooksNZ, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 68 pages, reprint.
Published by Cape Catley, Auckland, 2002
ISBN 10: 0908561903ISBN 13: 9780908561902
Seller: BOPBooks, Tauranga, BOP, New Zealand
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Soft cover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. Photos, Map (illustrator). 1st. Charlie Heberley was the last of that band of rugged NZ men who went out to sea in search of whales. Ironically, in the years before his death in 2000 Charlie became a passionate coservationalist, critical of those nations that insisted on continued whaling. This story is, however, built around the final whaling ventures in NZ, with Charlie working from stations in the Tory Channel and on Great Barrier Island. The Heberley family had an affinity with the sea, so it was probably inevitable that Charlie would continue the association. He first became active in the whaling trade in 1941, on-shore at the new station of the Perano family in Tory Channel, By 1943 he had become one of the gunners, taking over on the chaser Awatea from a predecessor killed when the harpoon gun breech exploded. These Marlborough Sounds whalers operated from small, fast motorboats capable of 30mph on 300/400 hp motors. The catchers were supported by the mothership Tuatea. By the 1950s whales were becoming scarce in Tory Channel waters and as the catch decreased so did Charlie's income. The book is redolent with, in addition to great whaling stories and anecdotes, Marlborough Sounds history, its personalities, the life style of people living largely in isolation, with farming and its associated activities, plus fishing, to provide employment between whaling seasons. In the late 1950s Charlie was invited to manage a new whaling station established by an Australian company on Great Barrier Island, in the Hauraki Gulf. So in 1959 Charlie and family moved north. It was Charlie's expertise in operating fast motor boat catchers that impressed the directiors of Barrier Whalers and in the first year of operations (1960) 104 whales were taken, but the whaling revival was to be short-lived and the Great Barrier station was closed in 1963 and the last NZ whaling station, the Perano's in Tory Channel, followed in 1964. By then Charlie and close family were back in the Sounds where he died in 2000, a man who had once hunted whales and in later life championed the cause of whale protection and conservation. Heather Heberley, Charlie's daughter-in-law, has provided a fascinating story, recalling the last days of NZ whaling. First edition from Cape Catley of 2002, 212 pages including bibliography,16 colour photos, 34 b/w photos, map, two pages reproduced newspaper clippings. Pictorial card covers are VG with light wear to corners and edges, ink gift inscription on half-title, crease to top corner page 101 with light smudging, slight undulations to half-title/title page, text block otherwise VG.
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Published by Cape Catley, Auckland, 1996
ISBN 10: 0908561512ISBN 13: 9780908561513
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good.
Published by Cape Catley, Auckland, 2004
ISBN 10: 0908561962ISBN 13: 9780908561964
Seller: Mainly Fiction, Auckland, New Zealand
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Pictorial card covers. Unmarked. Size: 8vo - over 7Ÿ" - 9Ÿ" tall.
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Published by Cape Catley, Auckland, 2001
ISBN 10: 0908561881ISBN 13: 9780908561889
Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New Zealand
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Small ownership stamp. Tread Softly for You Tread on My Life is that rare book - for the general reader and the writer, the researcher and the academic. Michael King tells riveting stories as he considers questions which beset all intelligent writers and readers. What should biographers especially bear in mind? What is compassionate truth? What does one owe to one's subjects - and to one's readers? These collected writings roam far and wide. Be it humour and the commonplace made more memorable, a refreshing look at race relations, portraits of extraordinary New Zealanders, or his own candid and always humane credo, King as historian, biographer and essayist combines firm and fresh judgements with common humanity.
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Published by Cape Catley, Auckland, New Zealand, 1999
ISBN 10: 0908561199ISBN 13: 9780908561193
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 183 pages.
Published by Cape Catley, Auckland, 2000
ISBN 10: 0908561822ISBN 13: 9780908561827
Seller: Mainly Fiction, Auckland, New Zealand
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Pictorial card covers. Unmarked. Size: 12mo - over 6Ÿ" - 7Ÿ" tall.
Published by Cape Catley Ltd, Auckland, 2000
ISBN 10: 0908561733ISBN 13: 9780908561735
Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New Zealand
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Book has a crease in the spine but is in very good condition. 4to. 90pp. Katherine Mansfield, at 19 and 'bored with Wellington', left New Zealand to be a writer. She never returned. Shortly before her death at 34 in 1923, she wrote (in a story fragment): 'It was one of those days so clear, so still, so silent you almost feel the earth itself has stopped in astonishment at its own beauty.' The setting, though unnamed, is almost certainly the Marlborough Sounds. Katherine Mansfield first made the Wellington-Picton crossing to the Marlborough Sounds when she was six months old. The area helped form her, and its images appeared in her letters and stories throughout her life. Her story The Voyage is included here. Previously unpublished material appears in Katherine Mansfield in Picton. It quotes extensively from Mansfield and her relatives, and traces the links she and her family had with the Sounds. Featured family are her grandparents, Arthur and Mary Beauchamp, one-time residents of Picton, and her great uncle Cradock Beauchamp, who farmed the land at the head of Queen Charlotte Sound where the Cobham Outward Bound School now stands.
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Published by Cape Catley, Auckland, 2009
ISBN 10: 1877340219ISBN 13: 9781877340215
Seller: Mainly Fiction, Auckland, New Zealand
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pictorial card covers, b&w photo illstns. A near fine copy with a gift inscription in front.
Published by Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand: Cape Catley, Limited, 2003
ISBN 10: 0908561911ISBN 13: 9780908561919
Seller: Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, VT, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. A clean and bright copy of this reprinted classic memoir this New Zealanders experiences in World War I. 216pp.
Published by Cape Catley Ltd, Auckland, 2000
ISBN 10: 0908561814ISBN 13: 9780908561810
Seller: Books@Ruawai, Kaipara District, New Zealand
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Soft cover. Condition: Good - sl Wear. First.
Published by Cape Catley Limited, Auckland, 2008
ISBN 10: 1877340138ISBN 13: 9781877340130
Seller: Books@Ruawai, Kaipara District, New Zealand
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Soft cover. Condition: Good - a Few age Spots. First.
Published by cape catley 2002 auckland, 2002
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
first edition octavo illus light card covers, 178pp FINE.
Published by Cape Catley, Auckland, 2007
ISBN 10: 187734009XISBN 13: 9781877340093
Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New Zealand
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Copy appears unread. Light shelf wear only. Jeanette Aplin's THE LIGHTHOUSE CHILDREN'S MOTHER is the long-awaited sequel to her popular story of life on Stephens Island. Here the author takes readers into a world now gone forever, the isolated life on a remote lighthouse this time in the far south, Dog Island in Foveaux Strait . Many things are much the same in families everywhere, but the extra challenges of lighthouse life will set parents thinking - how would we ourselves have coped? It's an engrossing read. Jeanette Aplin writes with charm and disarming honesty about island relationships, bringing her perceptive eye to what is truly different in her unusual circumstances.
Published by Cape Catley, Auckland, 2008
ISBN 10: 187734012XISBN 13: 9781877340123
Seller: Books@Ruawai, Kaipara District, New Zealand
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. John Clarke, Rena Owen, Reg Mombassa, Alannah Currie, Michael Campbell, Paula Morris, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Jon Stevens, Shona Martyn, Peter Gordon, Trelise Cooper, Todd Hunter, Chrstine Jeffs, Sam Neill, Kerry Fox, Roger Donaldson, Jon Toogood, Temuera Morrison, Phil Keoghan, Gavin Scott, Lucy Hockings, Michael Seresin, Dave Dobbyn.
Published by Cape Catley, Devonport, Auckland, 2008
ISBN 10: 1877340154ISBN 13: 9781877340154
Seller: Books@Ruawai, Kaipara District, New Zealand
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. First.
Published by Cape Catley, Auckland, 2011
ISBN 10: 1877340316ISBN 13: 9781877340314
Seller: Archway Books, Mana, New Zealand
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Soft Covers. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. 21 cm, 308 pp, colour photo plates, soft covers. As new.
Published by Cape Catley Ltd, Auckland, 2006
ISBN 10: 1877340014ISBN 13: 9781877340017
Seller: Archway Books, Mana, New Zealand
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Soft Covers. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. 23.5 cm, 445 pp, b&w photo plates, soft covers - very light marginal wear. A VG copy.
Published by Cape Catley, Auckland, 2010
ISBN 10: 1877340308ISBN 13: 9781877340307
Seller: Tinakori Books, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 334 pages, b/w photos. Includes Lloyd Jones & Finlay Macdonald, James George & David Eggleton, Jenny Bornholdt & Harry Rickets, Elizabeth Smither & David Hill, Peter Wells & Sioban Harvey, Elizabeth Knox & David Larsen, Kate De Goldi & Kim Hill, Damien Wilkins & Lynn Freeman, Paula Morris & Alice Te Punga Somerville, Kapka Kassabova & Louise OżBrien, Charlotte Grimshaw & Nicholas Reid, C.K. Stead & Lawrence Jones, Fiona Farrell & Iain Sharp, Witi Ihimaera & Selina Tusitala Marsh and Owen Marshall & John McCrystal. 'A rich and vivid picture of our storytellers and their inspirations, capturing their creativity and allowing readers to enter their worlds.'.
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Published by Cape Catley (2002), Auckland, 2002
ISBN 10: 0908561903ISBN 13: 9780908561902
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Previous owner's signatures (one blacked out).; 212 pages. Page dimensions: 209 x 147mm. "Years before he died in 2000, Charlie became an arent conservationist, blasting those countries which persisted in unbridled whaling, including that done under the guise of 'research'. [. . .] Last of the Whalers has gripping accounts of pursuits, captures and processing of whales, in Tory Channel and later at Great Barrier Island.".