For Sale

The Port Chalmers Museum has a number of publications relevant to Port Chalmers or maritime history for sale and order.
If you would like us to post your order out to you, please add $5 P&P or send us a pre-paid post bag.

 

Books for sale

* Your Family's History: research, write and publish it. (an introductory handbook for family historians)

John MacGibbon - $15

 

* Captain William Thomson: His Life (a biography of Otago's first Harbour Master)

Shirley Cameron. $45.

 

* Capturing Port - D. A. De Maus: photography, music, and community spirit in nineteenth-century Port Chalmers (a biography of local photographer D. A. De Maus, includes a CD with 11 of his songs)

Published by the Port Chalmers Museum. $30.

 

* A Fisherman Looks Back (published to commemorate the centenary of the Port Chalmers Fishermen's Co-operative Society 1909-2009)

By Jack Grennell with Ian Church. $20.

 

* Around the Bay - the community, boatbuilders and fishermen of Careys Bay

Ian Church with Alma Philp. $40.

 

* Gaining a Foothold - historical records of Otago's Eastern Coast 1770-1839

Edited by Ian Church. Orders taken for $100.

 

* The Heart of a City - the story of Dunedin's Octagon

Norman Ledgerwood. $36.

 

* Quarantine Island/Kamau Turua (St Martin Island) - A Short History

Lyndall Hancock. $35.


*The Tyser Legacy - a history of the Port Line and its associated companies

Ian Farquhar. $80.

 

*Huddart Parker - a famous Australasian Shipping Company, 1876-1961

W. A. Laxon. $47.

 

* Port Chalmers and its People

Ian Church. $25.


*Last Port to Antarctica - Dunedin and Port Chalmers: 100 years of Polar Service

Ian Church. $25.

 

*For those in Peril on the Sea (the Shipwreck Relief Society of NZ)

Ian Church. $20.

 

* The Wreck of the Manuka 

Bruce Collins. $29

 


* The Wreck of the Penguin 

Bruce Collins. $35

 

* Port Chalmers Volunteer Fire Brigade

J. K. Molloy. $2

 


*A Century of Rugby at Port Chalmers

H. Roberts & W. Innes. $2

 


* Port Chalmers Borough Council

 Peter Stewart. $5

 


*Rather Intriguing Dunedin Street Walks (Port Chalmers edition)

Paul Hayward. $10

 

DVD Documentaries


Tale of a Seaport (a history of Port Chalmers). DVD - $25 / VHS on sale for $10

Wharfies (a documentary about Port Chalmers watersiders). $25

Guardians of the Light (a documentary about NZ's lighthouse keepers) - available for order. $35