Kauri Timber Days (by John T Diamond and Bruce Hayward)

• 1991 edition. 48 Pages
• Publisher:. The Bush Press
• Format: Softcover, stapled. Photos and text
• Condition: Very good, touch of fading

A major industry in the northern part of New Zealand's North Island from the 1840s to the 1910s was the felling of mighty kauri trees. This book contains approximately 80 photos of bushmen at work as well as the means used to transport the felled logs and sawn timber: horses, bullocks, flumes and bush tramways.

These photos capture a vanished way-of-life; the felling of trees, the working of bullock teams and bush railways, the spectacular 'driving' of logs from wooden dams high in the hills are all dramatically recorded.