"Dramatic tales of ships and shipwrecks, cannons, murders and flagpoles, of whaleships and the whalemen who sailed them. [This book] ... resurrects long-forgotten stories from the turbulent history of the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, telling many for the first time"-- Back cover."Dramatic tales of ships and shipwrecks, cannons, murders and flagpoles, of whaleships and the whalemen who sailed them. [This book] ... resurrects long-forgotten stories from the turbulent history of the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, telling many for the first time"-- Back cover.