Official History: The Pacific : New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-1945 by Oliver A. Gillespie
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Category: New Zealand Historical | Series: Official History Ser. | Reading Level: New
This Volume is the Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-1945 and was originally published in 1952 by the Government of New Zealand, through the War History Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs. The Pacific is a tribute, to the men who fought in a campaign which was singul ...Show more
Voyages and Wanderings in Far-Off Seas and Lands
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
John Thomson, aged 17, leaves Scotland bound for Port Chalmers, New Zealand in 1861. In this book first published in 1912, he describes his experiences; as a ‘new chum’ on the Otago goldfields in 1862; his philosophical discussions with Te Whiti-o-Rongomai at Parihaka; and his ocean voyages under sail a ...Show more
Te Rongoa Maori: Maori Medicine by P. M. E. Williams
$26.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: very good
Pip Williams, a retired pharmacist living in Northland, has spent his life observing and recording the use by local Maori of native plants for medicinal purposes. Te Rongoa Maoribrings together his observations on 43 New Zealand plants and the health problems they were used to treat, colourfully intersp ...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
The ANZAC Girls: The Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses by Peter Rees
$24.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never have ...Show more
Mau Moko: the World of Maori Tattoo by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
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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
The Treaty of Waitangi | Te Tiriti o Waitangi: an Illustrated History by Claudia Orange
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Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: very good
Claudia Orange's writing on the Treaty of Waitangi has played a central role in national understanding of this foundational document. This fully revised and updated edition (previously entitled An Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi) brings the Treaty's history to life with a richly informativ ...Show more
Across the Pass: A Collection of Tramping Writing by selected by Shaun Barnett
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Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: very good
Tramping is a journey into mountainous country, across passes, along ridges, beside rivers or through forests. It is a journey also, perhaps, to discovering more about the native plants and animals existing in these wild ecosystems, and a journey into friendship or self-discovery. New Zealand trampers h ...Show more
Waitangi: A Living Treaty by Matthew Wright
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
Acclaimed historian Matthew Wright explores the evolution of New Zealand's most historically significant document, the Treaty of Waitangi, from its origins to its place in the present day. From the early cultural collisions between Maori and Pakeha that led to this landmark agreement, to the many reinte ...Show more
Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds by Anne Salmond
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Category: New Zealand Historical
Six centuries ago Polynesian explorers arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand, where they rapidly adapted to new plants, animals, landscapes, and climatic conditions. Four centuries later, European explorers arrived with maps and clocks, grids and fences, and they too adapted to a new island home. In this remo ...Show more
A Long, Long Trail: Marching over the Rimutaka Hill, 1915-1918, and the re-enactment march, September 2015 by Neil Francis
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
A Long, Long Trail is the story of the famous Rimutaka Hill marches. The New Zealand Army used the Rimutaka Hill road, between Wairarapa and Hutt Valley, as the ultimate fitness test for infantry about to embark for service on the Western Front in World War One. Over 30,000 soldiers climbed to the 555 m ...Show more
The Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
This bestselling book, the triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, is the unchallenged contemporary reference to the history of New Zealand. New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce f ...Show more