- Published: 3 December 2018
- ISBN: 9780143772675
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $70.00
Ocean
Tales of Discovery and Encounter that Defined New Zealand
- Published: 3 December 2018
- ISBN: 9780143772675
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $70.00
Ell leaves few pebbles unturned in this fulsomely illustrated voyage. From battleships to beach balls, trade and some of the best racing yachts ever built, Ocean is a highly readable exploration of the sea's enduring role in New Zealand life.
Christopher Moore, New Zealand Listener
[A] beautifully presented, richly illustrated volume.
Australian Women's Weekly
That Ocean could be considered a portable maritime museum is a reasonable one. ... [Its] packed with charts, news photographs, reproductions of historic and contemporary paintings and advertisements. ... Ell covers a huge amount of territory and the result is a coffee table collectible for seafarers – and by-the-sea dwellers.
Kim Knight, Weekend Herald
Telling the epic tales of Aotearoa's pioneers and trailblazers, [Sarah Ell] paints a portrait of the maritime past of our little island rolling in the deep of the world's largest ocean, then brings it back to the future with stirring stories of those for whom the sea is life today.
homestyle
This book will interest the general reader and help most of us understand an aspect of New Zealand history that has been insufficiently celebrated.
Peter Stupples, Otago Daily Times