THE TASTE OF SALT
SAILS BENEATH THE SOUTHERN CROSS, by P. A. Eaddy; A: H. and A. W. Reed, 17/6. }- VERY corner of New Zealand history is worth exploring; and it was sail, when other transport was umheard. of, that opened up our hazardous coastline and the dark country beyond it. In 1883 Mr. Eaddy (then aged one) arrived in the barque Clyde. Thereafter the Waitemata became his playground, then his Queen Street: blue water or dog-barking ,round the coast it was always home. Most of these salty reminiscences deal with coastwise ship- | ping (though one of the best parts is the | narrative of a 10 months’ South Sea Island voyage). Sir Henry Brett’s White | Wings took us up to 1885, and this book carries on with the story of the sailing coasters, inter-colonials, scows and the | cutter fleet. The catalogue of the ships _is as complete as memory and research | can make it. Mr. Eaddy knows his ships | better than most of us know our neighbours, and he dips his pen deep in tar and paint. The ships are living things: one can only hope that in a fourth book the author will tell us more and more of the wind-mated men who drove them. Reeds have built up a fine maritime list. This well-printed book, with 21 plates of old-timers, will be appreciated | by all who watch white sails.
D.
G.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 814, 4 March 1955, Page 14
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233THE TASTE OF SALT New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 814, 4 March 1955, Page 14
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