The history of Hawke’s Bay – third edition

My long-standing history of Hawke’s Bay is out this month in new edition. It’s been in print and selling steadily since 2017. This new edition is in full colour, with full revision of everything from the 1950s onwards and a major update covering the cyclone that devastated Hawke’s Bay in February 2023

New colour pictures of Hawke’s Bay from the 1950s onwards include a selection that have never before been published. The maps have been updated with colour, and the early chapters include watercolours ‘as seen’ by the artists of the nineteenth century.

There is also new material about the drive-by U-boat incident of 1945, when U-862 sailed past Napier and attacked a coastal steamer.

It’s available in print only, via good New Zealand bookstores from mid-year. But you can have it now, early purchase exclusively from Wardinis Books – Napier and Havelock North shops or online via https://wardinibooks.circlesoft.net/

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