MAUI AND ME: A SEARCH FOR A FISHERMAN'S EL DORADO. By Temple Sutherland.

1963 1st UK edition. 8vo (145 x 221mm). Pp234, 2pp ads. B/w photographs, end-paper maps. The UK edition is bound in light blue cloth rather than paper-covered boards.

An angler travels the length and breadth of New Zealand exploring every kind of fishing". Whether he is luring trout at Taupo, or on the Rotorua lakes; tempting snapper in the hissing surf of the Ninety Mile Beach; simmering in the excitement of an international big-game fishing contest; enticing salmon on the snow rivers of Canterbury; or out with commercial fishermen, hauling blue cod, or crayfish from the depths of Foveaux Strait, he is always responsive to the other half of fishing - the scenery, the people, the side-interests, the incidents that crop up fortuitously, the inviting byways that frequently decoy him from from the beaten track".