100 Days That Mapped a Nation by Graeme Lay
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
October 2019 marks the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook’s first landfall in New Zealand. One Hundred Days that Mapped a Nation marks this historic occasion by looking at Cook’s intrepid journeys to New Zealand and the Pacific that were unprecedented for the time and had such far-reaching conseque ...Show more
Funny As - The story of New Zealand comedy by Horan Paul Matthews Philip
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
From the Kiwi Concert Party to The Topp Twins, Billy T. James to Rose Matafeo, Fred Dagg to Flight of the Conchords, New Zealanders have made each other laugh in ways distinctive to these islands. Funny As tells the story of comedy in this country through more than 300 pictures and an engaging text base ...Show more
Kauri by Joanna Orwin
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
One of the largest trees in the world, the kauri is a natural wonder and a New Zealand icon. Its immense trunk has supplied timber for every conceivable use from Maori war canoes to modern European homes. Along the way, the industries that sprang up around it shaped national culture in ways that still e ...Show more
Dead Letters by Davidson Jared
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
In 1918, from deep within the West Coast bush, a miner on the run from the military wrote a letter to his sweetheart. Two months later he was in jail. Like millions of others, his letter had been steamed open by a team of censors shrouded in secrecy. Using their confiscated mail as a starting point, Dea ...Show more
The Political Years by Marilyn Waring
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
"When I entered Parliament in 1975, I joined a very small club: although women in New Zealand won the right to vote in 1893, only a tiny handful had been Members of Parliament in the hundred or so years that followed. I was number 15!" In 1975, Marilyn Waring was elected to the New Zealand Parliament as ...Show more
Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi by Toby Morris; Ross Calman; Mark Derby; Piripi Walker
24.99 NZD
Category: Graphic Novels
Ground-breaking full-colour graphic novel about Te Tiriti o Waitangi/The Treaty of Waitangi. This reorua (bilingual) graphic-novel-style flip book presents important information in a visually appealing and engaging way. The text (in both English and te reo Māori) and illustrations work together to provi ...Show more
The Plimmer Legacy by Bee Dawson
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
The Plimmers of Wellington were an influential family in the early days of the settlement - John Plimmer (of Plimmer Steps) was known as 'the father of Wellington'. From a busy store located in a ship (Plimmer's Ark) through the hard days of farming in the Depression, to today's busy world, the Plimmer ...Show more
Living Among the Northland Maori - Diary of Father Antoine Garin, 1844-1846 by Antonie Garin; Peter Tremewan (editor, translator); Giselle Larcome (editor, translator)
89.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
A French Marist priest, Father Antoine Garin was sent to run the remote Mangakahia mission station on the banks of the Wairoa River. Living Among the Northland Maori is Garin's diary recording his experiences from 1844 to 1846 as he gets to know the Maori in the region. The diary provides vivid accounts ...Show more
West Island by Johnson Stephanie
39.95 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Five notable twentieth-century New Zealanders who made their lives in Australia are the subject of this fascinating biographical investigation by award-winning author Stephanie Johnson.Roland Wakelin, Dulcie Deamer, Jean Devanny, Douglas Stewart and Eric Baume had little in common in personality, procli ...Show more
Partisan: The Incredible True Story of a New Zealand Soldier Behind Enemy Lines by James Caffin
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military | Reading Level: near fine
The gripping story of a New Zealand solider who escaped the clutches of a prisoner-of-war camp to join the Yugoslav freedom fighters during the Second World War After a daring escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in occupied Yugoslavia, John Denvir reached the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, where he join ...Show more
Filming the Colonial Past - The New Zealand Wars on Screen by Annabel Cooper
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
The New Zealand Wars were defining events in the nation's history. Filming the Colonial Past, an engaging new book from Annabel Cooper, tells a story of filmmakers' fascination with these conflicts over the past 90 years.From silent screen to smartphone, and from Pakeha adventurers to young Maori songwr ...Show more
Pumice and Pines - The Story of Kaingaroa Forest by Joan Boyd
76.00 NZD
Category: NZ History