Murder on the Maungatapu by Wayne Martin
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
In the winter of 1866 New Zealand s most notorious bushranger, Richard Burgess, knelt at a small desk in his Nelson prison cell, took up his quill pen and began to write. His life, he knew, was beyond salvation but words were the last weapon at his disposal to consign his mortal enemy, gang turncoat Jos ...Show more
Fire in the Hills by Helen Beaglehole
$19.99 NZD
$50.00 (60% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical
Over six to seven hundred years, Maori burned about one third of New Zealand’s ground cover. In the following 70 years, and at a devastating rate, European settlers burned about another third as they cleared and ‘improved’ the land. All too frequently, burn-offs became uncontrollable conflagrations that ...Show more
Old Black Cloud - A Cultural History of Mental Depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
Mental depression is a serious issue in contemporary New Zealand, and it has anincreasingly high profile. But during our history, depression has often been hiddenunder a long black cloud of denial that we have not always lived up to the Kiwiideal of being pragmatic and have not always coped.Using histor ...Show more
U-Boat in New Zealand Waters: U 862's War Patrol of Gisborne and Napier by Gerald Shone
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
U-boat In New Zealand Waters is a book about the farthest U-boat patrol of World War Two, a journey which brought the ultra-long-range submarine U 862 to New Zealand's East Coast in January 1945. U 862 was one of three U-boats based in the Far East chosen in Berlin for operations against merchant shippi ...Show more
Protest!: Shaping Aotearoa by Mandy Hager
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: near fine
A selected history of the protests in New Zealand that shape modern day Aotearoa, starting with the early 1800s, through to anti-nuclear and land rights. Mandy Hager looks at the background, the structure of the protest and how it affected attitudes. Includes a brief look at the Pacific Islands claims f ...Show more
Anzac Day: The New Zealand Story: What It Is and Why It Matters by Philippa Werry
$24.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
This book exposes the rich history behind Anzac Day, seeking to answer the many questions children often ask their parents and teachers around the 25th of April every year. It covers all aspects of Anzac Day, from the Gallipoli Campaign and the Great War, right through to the format of the commemorative ...Show more
Pressing On : The Story of New Zealand Newspapers 1921-2000
$69.50 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
Wellington at Work in the 1890s by Beverley Randell & Hugh Price (eds)
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
Compiled from two rich sources: illustrations from four beautifully produced posters that came out in 1895 as supplements to the New Zealand Times, and supporting text from the 1897 Cyclopedia of New Zealand. The result is a colourful account of late Victorian life in Wellington. Dop May 2009, Wellin ...Show more
Wars Without End: New Zealand's Land Wars - A Maori Perspective by Danny Keenan
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
From the earliest days of European settlement in New Zealand, Māori have struggled to hold on to their land. Tensions began early, arising from disputed land sales. When open conflict between Māori and Imperial forces broke out in the 1840s and 1860s, the struggles only intensified. For both sides, land ...Show more
Mau Moko: the World of Maori Tattoo by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
'Very likely to become the definitive work on the subject . . . a big, beautiful, important book.'Warwick Roger, North and SouthTaia o moko, hei hoa matenga mou . . .Take your moko, as a friend forever . . .In the traditional Maori world the moko, or facial or body tattoo, was part of everyday life; eve ...Show more
Captured by Maori - White Female Captives, Sex and Racism on the Nineteenth-Century New Zealand Frontier by Trevor Bentley
$36.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: near fine
The capture of white women by Maori in the nineteenth century was often accompanied by high hysteria and moral outrage. Trevor Bentley tells these women
Shattered Glory: The New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front by Matthew Wright
$45.00 NZD
$47.00 (4% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical
The Gallipoli campaign of 1915 destroyed New Zealand's fantasies of war as a glorious schoolboy adventure on behalf of a beloved Empire. The Western Front campaign that followed in 1916-18 gave shape to the emotional impact. It was a horror world of death and mud that destroyed the souls of the young me ...Show more