A shipwreck survivor story, signed by the author and crew themselves - Minerva Reef
A shipwreck survivor story, signed by the author and crew themselves - Minerva Reef
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Minerva Reef - Fourteen desperate weeks with the castaway Tongans is a non-fiction book by Olaf Ruhen that recounts the remarkable true story of 17 Tongan men who were shipwrecked on the remote Minerva Reef in 1962 and survived for 101 days.
"On the night of 7 July 1962 the twenty ton cutter Tuaikaepau, sailing from Tonga to Auckland, ran hard upon the outer edge of Minerva Reef, 380 miles south of Suva in Fiji. Heavy seas and the sharp teeth of the coral quickly broke the cutter to pieces, and her complement of seventeen Tongans found themselves without even a small boat on a reef that was totally submerged except during the few hours of low tide each day"
Signed by the author and five survivors.
200pp, illustrated, first edition 1963, published by Minerva Bookshop.
VG+. Scarce
$85
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