Mauri Ora: Wisdom from the Maori World by Peter Alsop & Te Rau Kupenga
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: near fine
Pearls of wisdom – whakataukī – have been gifted from generation to generation as an intrinsic part of the Māori world. As powerful metaphors, they combine analogy and cultural history in the most economical of words. Short and insightful, they take you by surprise, engendering reflection, learning and ...Show more
September 12: The Third Test and Final Protest of the 1981 Springbok Tour: 1981 by Anthony Phelps
$79.99 NZD
$85.00 (5% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical
A high quality artists book - 100 page photographic record of the Springbok Tour protests in Auckland, mainly on September 12 showing police, protesters, spectators and the violence that ensued as Aotearoa New Zealand's population were split apart and the public's relationship with the police changed fo ...Show more
Tracking Captain Thomas - A journey in search of the unacknowledged founder of Canterbury by Colin Amodeo
$19.99 NZD
$49.99 (60% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: near fine
The continuing myth that Canterbury was born in December 1850 with the arrival of the First Four Ships has to be dispelled. Canterbury did not, like the legendary Athena, spring 'fully-armed from the head of Zeus' (in this case, John Robert Godley) as succeeding generations after 1851 have been led to b ...Show more
Labour of Love - A Personal History of Midwifery in Aotearoa by Joan Skinner
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
Joan Skinner has been a midwife since 1976 and has seen extraordinary change, both in the way women are supported to give birth and in the social and political context in which they become mothers. Labour of Love weaves her own experiences as a midwife into the story of childbirth in Aotearoa: the incre ...Show more
New Zealand's Great War: New Zealand & Allies and the First World War by John Crawford & Ian McGibbon (eds)
$34.99 NZD
$89.99 (61% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: very good
This book is a collection of essays arising out of the 'Zealandia's Great War' conference organised by the New Zealand Military History Committee in November 2003. In 32 essays by distinguished military historians from New Zealand and around the world, various aspects of New Zealand's involvement in Wor ...Show more
In Hindsight: 50 Years of Deer Farming in New Zealand by Lynda Gray
$54.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
How deer in New Zealand changed within 50 years from being a feral pest to the basis of a farmed-livestock, $320-million export industry is a believe-it-or-not story. In Hindsight overviews this niche agricultural sector’s unconventional upbringing and comprehensively tracks its whirlwind rise to mains ...Show more
The Shearers : New Zealand Legends by Ruth Entwistle Low
$39.99 NZD
$45.00 (11% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical
The Shearers is a colourful account of the men and women, past and present, who have committed their lives to shearing in New Zealand. Their voices - in their own words, often brutally honest reflections on what it is to be a shearer - are at the heart of this book- their training, their tools, their ca ...Show more
Shipwrecked: New Zealand Maritime Disasters by Mclean Gavin
$47.99 NZD
$59.99 (20% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical
Shipwrecks litter the coasts and reefs of New Zealand. Disasters at sea are no longer the regular occurrence they were in the days when sea travel was the main means of coastal and international transport, yet recent wrecks like the Rena show that perils remain. Shipwrecked retells the voyages of ships ...Show more
Auckland - The Twentieth-Century Story by Paul Moon
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: good-very good
Auckland: The Twentieth-Century Story journeys through the mosaic of cultures and lifestyles, anxieties and hopes, disasters and triumphs, virtues and vices that led to the transformation of New Zealand's largest city between 1900 and 2000.
John Gillies - Skippers Canyon - History Art Adventure by John Gillies
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: near fine
Skippers Canyon is an artist’s paradise and one of New Zealand’s most stunning locations. This historic and scenic gorge, carved out by the Shotover River in Queenstown’s back country, has been a favourite destination and inspiration for artist John Gillies for some forty years. His love of Skippers and ...Show more
The New Zealand Wars (The New Zealand Series) by Matthew Wright
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Series: The NZ Series
Why did the New Zealand Wars occur? Who fought them and how did they proceed? And where were these battles fought? In The New Zealand Wars, Matthew Wright answers these questions in probing text supported by fact boxes and illustrations that make navigating these protracted wars easy. Building on his 20 ...Show more
Fifty Years a Feminist by Sue Kedgley
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: very good
A pioneering New Zealand feminist reflects on fifty years of feminism. In 1971 Sue Kedgley and a group of other young feminists carried a coffin into Auckland’s Albert Park to protest against decades of stagnant advancement for New Zealand women since they won the right to vote in 1893. From that day, s ...Show more