The Perano whalers of Cook Strait, 1911-1964
Category: Book
| Title | The Perano whalers of Cook Strait, 1911-1964 |
|---|---|
| Author | Don Grady |
| Year | 1982 |
| Publisher | A.H. & A.W. Reed |
| ISBN | 0589013920 |
| Language | English |
| Format | Hardback with dust jacket. 238 pages, illustrated |
| Geographic reference | Cook Strait, |
| Time reference | 1911-1964 |
| Online resource | no |
| Topic | Italian fishermen, Italian whalers, Perano family, liguri in Nuova Zelanda, Ligurian immigrants, whaling, |
The Perano family operated shore whaling stations inside the narrow entrance to Tory Channel in Cook Strait, utilising small high speed whale chasing boats. This extensively illustrated book is an outstanding chronicle of a unique industry. The Peranos' kind of whaling involved small, high-speed chasers which sometimes actually mustered humpback whales like a shepherd's dog rounds up sheep, driving them into the narrow entrance of Tory Channel for killing and processing at their shore factory. In compiling this book Christchurch journalist Don Grady interviewed more than 80 former whalers employed by the Peranos and examined thousands of old diaries, records and photographs. Grady's extensively illustrated book is an outstanding chronicle of a colourful era in New Zealand's history, an immensely readable "inside story" of a unique industry and a unique way of life.
The book si available in the Collections Record of the Auckland War Memorial Museum, at Fishpond.co.nz and in a few second hand book stores.
More about the Perano family:
Memories of the Perano Family
Getting the family back together ... all 1000 of them
Perano, Joseph August- Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
