Ferries of the Derwent: A History of the Ferry Services on the Derwent River by D G O'May

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Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Some minor scratches to front cover. Mark on front cover near title. Exposure to a humid environment has given a wobble to pages. All pages are separate.

For one hundred and fifty years, people of the eastern side of the River Derwent depended on ferry boats of various types for their existence, afters a lapse of ten odd years, with the collapse of the Tasman Bridge in 1975, the necessity of relying on ferry vessels occurred again. (Chapter 1)