Viaducts Against The Sky - The Story Of Port Craig - Warren Bird

Synopsis

Fascinating history of Port Craig, New Zealand: its founding in 1916 by the Marlborough Timber Co. as a base for logging one of the country's last significant coastal forests, the construction of the country's largest and most technologically advanced sawmills, the use of the extensive bush tramway with one of New Zealand's largest tramway locomotives running over its tallest tramway bridge, town life while the sawmill was running, the use of the Lidgerwood overhead logging cableway, the town's economic collapse during the Depression, and the recent development of the tourist industry based around Waitutu Forest and the Fiordland National Park. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. With maps, footnotes and index.

Softcover

Illustrated

Printed - 2011

Pages - 184

ISBN - 9780908629718

Condition - very  good

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