Porter, G & T. UNDER THE NOR'WEST ARCH

Porter, Grace and Ted  UNDER THE NOR'WEST ARCH, AH & AW Reed, Wellington, First Edition, 1970.  A High Country Story.  Hardcover in very good condition, dust jacket in good condition, plastic protected, ex library book, 173 pages.  This is the story of the Porters, who lived permanently at Manuka Point, not far from Mount Algidus, after fourteen years Ted got a new job at the Harper Diversion at Lake Coleridgy. Ted became a close friend to a succession of American Commanders of Operation Deepfreeze - and this later led him south on three trips to Antarctica.  A book full of stories about rods, rifles, New Zealands' back country, a woman's side of high country life, set around the mountains of the Canterbury high country, under the nor'west arch.