Rotorua: Stories Behind the Scenery by Sue Hall
9.99 NZD
19.99 (50% off)
Category: NZ Pictorial
Rotorua is one of the North Island's most popular tourist destinations for both Kiwis and overseas visitors alike. In 2007 there were an estimated 2.9 million visitor arrivals. Here, in this first book of Stories Behind the Scenery series, Mike Hollman's stunning photographs highlight the unique beauty ...Show more
Changing Pace: A Memoir by Richard Hadlee
44.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This fascinating memoir follows on from the bestselling biography Rhythm and Swing, recounting the last few years of Sir Richard Hadlee's cricketing career before describing the tumultuous period in his life that followed his retirement. Sir Richard describes how his life was suddenly shattered as he ex ...Show more
New Zealand Listener People : Profiles from the pages of the New Zealand Listener by Various
29.99 NZD
Category: Rotorua Books
Since its launch in 1939, the New Zealand Listener has covered the political, cultural and literary life of this country. New Zealand Listener People brings together a selection of the profiles of the countless people who have been written about over the years. Those featured in this book range from the ...Show more
Making Sheep Country: Mt Peel Station and the Transformation of the Tussock Lands by Robert Peden
11.99 NZD
49.99 (76% off)
Category: Rotorua Books | Reading Level: very good
After attending university for the first time in 1969, Robert Peden spent 25 years shepherding and managing high country sheep stations in the South Island of New Zealand. He returned to university in 1999, completing an Honours and a Master's degree in history at the University of Canterbury, Christchu ...Show more
The University of Auckland: The First 125 Years by Nicholas Reid
39.99 NZD
Category: Rotorua Books | Reading Level: very good
In the early 21st century, as it celebrates its 125th anniversary, The University of Auckland is New Zealand's biggest, best-endowed, most research-driven university. Formally opened in May 1883 as Auckland University College, it then comprised a disused courthouse and jail, 95 students and just 4 teach ...Show more
Logan Campbell's Auckland - Tales from the early years by R C J. Stone
45.00 NZD
Category: Rotorua Books | Reading Level: near fine
In this charming book, Russell Stone, author of the awardwinning "From Tamaki-makau-rau to Auckland", recounts 15 tales from his encyclopaedic knowledge of 19th-century colonial Auckland. These include the stories of novelist Anthony Trollope's visit, a newspaper printed on a mangle, of two aborted duel ...Show more
City of Enterprise - Perspectives on Auckland Business History by Ian Hunter (ed.); Diana Morrow (ed.)
49.99 NZD
Category: Rotorua Books | Reading Level: near fine
From its earliest days the city of Auckland has thrived on business; it quickly became and still remains the commercial and financial capital of the country. This important book, published to celebrate the centenary of the University of Auckland Commerce Faculty and the opening of the new Business Schoo ...Show more
Dirt - Filth and Decay in a New World Arcadia by Pamela Wood
37.50 NZD
Category: Rotorua Books | Reading Level: very good
Coming to the New World paradise of New Zealand the 19th-century colonial settlers did not expect to find the Old World evils of dirt and decay. But this original and fascinating book shows that dirt there was and that over time opinions changed about just what it was, what should be done about it and w ...Show more
The Murder of Chow Yat by Joan Rosier-Jones
29.99 NZD
Category: Rotorua Books
Market Gardener, Chow Yat, lived on the outskirts of Wanganui in post-WWI New Zealand, a time of particularly rampant xenophobia. On 31 May 1922 this humble, hardworking Chinese man was brutally shot four times. Author Joan Rosier-Jones brings this true and intriguing murder story to life. As a 'cold ca ...Show more