New Zealand’s first whaling station was set up in Fiordland, in the late 1820s.Amongst the crew was a ten-year-old boy. This story is his imagined journal of the year 1830, and although fiction, it is based on actual events and is a realistic portrayal of conditions at the home.Jack Fletcher is a typical boy in many ways but he faces life with courage, humour and honesty.
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