Freyberg: A Life's Journey by Matthew Wright
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: near fine
In this fresh account of one of the 20th-century's great New Zealanders, Matthew Wright approaches Bernard Freyberg the man rather than the more widely known figure of a military leader. What took a humble immigrant child in Wellington to become a hero in two wars, friend to literary giants and politici ...Show more
The Dark Island - Leprosy in New Zealand and the Quail Island Colony by Benjamin Kingsbury
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: near fine
From 1906 to 1925 Quail Island was the site of New Zealands leprosy colony. The colony began by accident, as it were, after the discovery of a leprosy sufferer in Christchurch. As further patients arrived from across the country, it grew into a controversial and troubled institution an embarrassment to ...Show more
Nowhere Far from the Sea - The Story of New Zealand in Quotations by Steve Barnett
$24.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
A compilation of Quotes about New Zealand by the intelligent and the well-known. Sourced from a mix of well-known New Zealanders and famous foreigners, with some people being generous in their kindness while others are biting in their savagery about the country.The arc of quotes map New Zealand's growth ...Show more
Cook Voyages Encounters by Janet Davidson
$65.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: near fine
Almost 250 years after James Cook first sighted Aotearoa in October 1769, world-wide interest in all aspects of his exploration of the Pacific endures. In this handsome book, widely respected Pacific scholar Janet Davidson details the collection of Maori, Pacific and Native American objects associated w ...Show more
Thomas Gilchrist and Sons Limited of the Maniototo - The story of New Zealand's longest operating general store and the communities it serves by Paula Wagemaker
$54.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: very good
The New Zealand Wars by Philippa Werry
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
New edition of The New Zealand Wars The New Zealand Wars are a part of New Zealand's history that many people wish they knew more about. This book describes how the wars came about, where and when they were fought and who was involved. It looks at how they are being remembered today, including new way ...Show more
Te Puna Waiora - The Weavers of Te Kahui Whiritoi by Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku, Donna Campbell; Nathan Pōhio; Awhina Tamarapa
$59.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
A stunning new book on the work of Aotearoa New Zealand’s senior Māori weavers. The story of Māori weaving is one of great skill, determination and survival. When colonisation threatened Māori society, the women continued to weave. When their taonga plant species were threatened, they advocated for thei ...Show more
Finding a Way to Live by Hoki Perano
$69.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
Before they surrendered their lives, a handful of ex-whalers helped to complete a scrapbook-type collection of their stories, photos, and other interesting data. By putting together this project, they salvaged some of the history of the Tory Channel Whaling Enterprise. The contents of that scrapbook, al ...Show more
John Mulgan and the Greek Left by C.-Dimitris Gounelas; Ruth Parkin-Gounelas
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
In September 1943, New Zealand writer John Mulgan was parachuted by the British Special Services (SOE) into remote mountain terrain in the centre of Nazi-occupied Greece, where he worked with the left-wing resistance to facilitate some of WW2's most successful episodes of guerrilla warfare. This experie ...Show more
Jumping Sundays - The Rise and Fall of the Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand by Nick Bollinger
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: near fine
Award-winning writer Nick Bollinger’s deep history of the transformation of New Zealand life wrought by the counterculture in the 1960s and ’70s.On a Sunday afternoon in the spring of 1969, thousands of people defied Auckland city bylaws and came to party in Albert Park. A rock band played on the rotund ...Show more
Combat Cops: The past, the present and their store by Allsopp Nigel
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
Nigel Allsopp, author of over 15 books, has been writing the story of the combat cops, also known as the Military Police, for many years. There are over 40 nations involved where Military Police serve. 'Combact Cops' must be one of the least appreciated yet most indispensable military figures in modern ...Show more
Old Invercargill by John Hall-Jones
$39.90 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
In this illustrated history of Old Invercargill, John Hall-Jones considers himself extremely fortunate to have inherited his father’s extensive collection of photographs of Invercargill and early descriptions of the town by the pioneers. Here is Bishop Harper’s account of a most disturbing night in the ...Show more