ISBN10: 1877427314, ISBN13: 9781877427312, [publisher: Wilsonscott, New Zealand] Hardcover 338 pages. tidy ex reference library -d/j plastic protected-heavy book check postage with us
[Wellington, New Zealand] [Publication Year: 2010]

ISBN10: 1877427314, ISBN13: 9781877427312, [publisher: WilliamScott] Hardcover 338 pages. Small tear at top of djThis story covers fifty six years of maritime history, from the last six months of the Secon d World War until the year 2002. In December 1944, a young Scot b egan a seagoing career with one of Britain's oldest shipping comp anies, Alfred Holt &. Company, the Blue Funnel Line of Liverpool, which took him around the globe to many remote places. From the Molucca Islands in Indonesia; to Matadi, one hundred miles up the Congo in Africa; to the creeks and thousand islands of Burma and Thailand; to New York, Sydney, Tokyo, Hamburg; Broome in West Au stralia; Jeddah in Saudi Arabia; to Shanghai, Yokohama and to lit tle known parts of North Borneo; around the Pacific Islands and f inally to New Zealand. After fourteen years at sea, he began a ne w career as a marine pilot, which lasted for forty two years, pil oting ships in Penang Malaysia, three New Zealand harbours and in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Fifty six years after boarding his first s hip, Ian retired from the position of Harbour Master/Pilot in the port of Gisborne, Poverty Bay; where his namesake Captain James Cook first set foot on New Zealand soil. During this long and var ied career, Ian experienced North Atlantic convoys in wartime, a hurricane off the coast of Florida, survived three hours in shark infested waters in Lagos, Nigeria, witnessed a murder in the Cel ebes and tracked a tiger in Mala ...