Early Events Seatoun Sinclair Head by Tonks Gary (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two small inscription and signed by the author. Very light shelf wear only. One of only 500 copies. Early Events From Seatoun to Sinclair Head. gary Tonks life brought him into contact with many interesting people, some who had exciting and history making lives, most going unnoticed and unrecorded. Thus Gary saw a need to record such for future generations. In 2007 he wrote and published two books 'Tonks and the Bypass' and 'Tonks of Early Wellington'. From the success of these publications Gary has seen fit to publish this book because the passage of time erases - much of what he has committed to this record was already starting to fall into the dust of time. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Photos, maps. drawings, diagrams ,document reproductions ect (illustrator). 1st Edition. Covering the southern- most coastal regions in the Wellington area. from the late 1930s to the latter days of the 1950s, Gary Tonks" outstanding study is one that will provide any reader with something they did not know. Its contents listings contain 40 topics ranging from coastal military fortifications created in WWIi, to business and commercial development., shipwrecks along the treacherous coast, tragedies to the 1940 Centennial Exhibition, men and their horses, construction of Wellington Airport and advances in aviation, disappointment on the Terawhiti gold fields or the arrival of US troops in the capitlal in 1942 to community and domestic influences to the degree of enemy threat during WWII. All this is complemented by an amazing selection of illustrations. This item from a first printing of 500 copies. Signed by Author(s).