Cook's Ark by Alison Sutherland
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Cook's Ark is a fascinating account of the animals that sailed with Captain James Cook to the South Pacific, with particular reference to New Zealand. It offers a novel insight into an aspect of Cook's voyages rarely touched on by other authors: the menagerie that travelled in uncomfortably close proxim ...Show more
Tooth and Veil - The life and times of the New Zealand Dental Nurse by Noel O'Hare
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
In 1921, the School Dental Service was established. A social experiment unique to New Zealand, it was lauded around the world and later modelled in 15 countries. This is the story of those on the front line of that experiment, the dental nurses who endured military-style training, poor resourcing and pe ...Show more
A Short History of Farming in New Zealand by Gordon McLauchlan
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: new
Gordon McLauchlan continues his bestselling Short History series with an in-depth look into the history of the farming industry in New Zealand. From the early migrant farmers and regional produce trading, to the revolution of refrigeration - opening up global opportunities for our fast-growing export ma ...Show more
Today in New Zealand History (Updated) by Neill Atkinson; David Green; Gareth Phipps; Steve Watters
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Dates matter, and they are often a starting point for our engagement with history. For most New Zealanders, days like 6 February or 25 April are laden with significance. They are recognised as markers of important moments in our past; they inspire pride, connection, reflection, or perhaps controversy. S ...Show more
Women Mean Business - Colonial businesswomen in New Zealand by Catherine Bishop
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
From Kaitaia in Northland to Oban on Stewart Island, New Zealands nineteenth-century towns were full of entrepreneurial women. Contrary to what we might expect, colonial women were not only wives and mothers or domestic servants. A surprising number ran their own businesses, supporting themselves and th ...Show more
The Home Front - New Zealand Society and the War Effort 1914-1919 by James Watson
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: Chp Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The Great War is now typically regarded as senseless and futile, but most New Zealanders at the time considered it to be a war to preserve security and freedoms, to punish an aggressive enemy and to win a better world. Yet the war years proved a tumultuous time, and bitterness and animosities ran alongs ...Show more
Mid-Century Living: The Butterfly House Collection by Christine Fernyhough; Damian Skinner
60.00 NZD
Category: Interior Design
An incurable collector shares her astonishing collection of vintage New Zealand art, objects and design and her classic 1960s seaside bach. For over 30 years, philanthropist and best-selling author of The Road to Castle Hill Christine Fernyhough has built an extraordinary collection of over 4000 everyd ...Show more
Pioneer Women (The New Zealand Series) by Sarah Ell
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: The New Zealand Series
The first two books in The NZ Series give a new take on New Zealand society, history, science and geography. Here is a snappily designed and fact-packed collection for intermediate and high-school age readers. Pioneer Women captures the experiences of European women who settled in New Zealand in the nin ...Show more
Crafting Aotearoa: A Cultural History of Making in New Zealand and the Wider Moana Oceania by Kololesa Mahina Tuai
85.00 NZD
Category: Cultural History | Reading Level: near fine
A major new history of craft that spans three centuries of making and thinking in Aotearoa New Zealand and the wider Moana (Pacific). It tells the previously untold story of craft in Aotearoa New Zealand, and proposes a new idea of craft - one that acknowledges Pakeha, Maori and wider Moana histories of ...Show more
The Dark Island - Leprosy in New Zealand and the Quail Island Colony by Benjamin Kingsbury
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | 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