Encounters and Collisions by Gordon McLauchlan
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
It was widely reported, when he died earlier in 2020, that Gordon McLauchlan’s last book was "Stop the Clock" but, in fact, he was finalising details of Encounters until several days before his death in January. In 26 engaging and provocative essays, Gordon McLauchlan writes about people, illustrious an ...Show more
House of Treasures - 150 Objects from Canterbury Museum Nga Taonga Tuku Iho by James Herries Beattie, Et Al
69.95 NZD
Category: NZ History
Since first opening its doors to the public on Rolleston Avenue on 1 October 1870, Canterbury Museum has come to house an estimated 2.3 million taonga (treasures). To celebrate the Museum’s 150th anniversary, 150 taonga (treasures) from this vast collection are showcased in a superbly designed and photo ...Show more
Aotearoa Endless Sea: Our story told through the taonga of the National Maritime Museum by Frances Walsh
70.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
A BOOK FOR ALL NEW ZEALANDERS WHO FEEL CONNECTED TO THE SEA. This year New Zealands National Maritime Museum will be in the thick of the action when the Americas Cup defence comes to Auckland. This beautiful book, photographed by Jane Ussher, surveys its collection and explores New Zealandmaritime histo ...Show more
Down South - In Search of the Great Southern Land by Bruce Ansley
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
In Down South, writer Bruce Ansley goes on a journey back to his beloved South Island. From Curio Bay to Golden Bay, in Down South writer Bruce Ansley sets off on a vast expedition across the South Island, Te Waipounamu, visiting the places and people who hold clues to the south's famous character. Not ...Show more
Ko Aotearoa Tatou / We Are New Zealand - an anthology by Michelle Elvy; Paula Morris; James Norcliffe
39.95 NZD
Category: Cultural History | Reading Level: near fine
In the aftermath of the Christchurch terrorist attacks of 15 March 2019, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared: 'We are all New Zealanders.' These words resonated, an instant meme that asserted our national diversity and inclusiveness and, at the same time, issued a rebuke to hatred and divisiveness. K ...Show more
Rock College: An unofficial history of Mount Eden Prison by Mark Derby
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
INSIDE THE FORBIDDING STONE WALLS OF NEW ZEALANDS MOST INFAMOUS GAOL. Mount Eden is this countrys most famous gaol. The forbidding Victorian structure has housed some of the countrys most notorious criminals, and is where many hangings took place, right up until modern times. It has been both the site o ...Show more
Agency of Hope - The story of the Auckland City Mission 1920-2020 by Peter Lineham
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
A CENTURY OF AUCKLANDERS HELPING AUCKLANDERS. This lively history by well-known historian Peter Lineham features over 100 photographs and takes readers inside a remarkable organisation working at the front lines of a society in which poverty has become entrenched. For 100 years the Auckland City Mission ...Show more
The New Zealand War - The Second Year of One of England's Little Wars (Classic Reprint) by Octavius Hadfield
136.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Excerpt from The New Zealand War: The Second Year of One of England's Little Wars The silence of the local press as to the real merits of the Taranaki war induced me to send home to England in May, 1860, a few remarks on that subject, which were published the form of a letter to His Grace the Duke of Ne ...Show more
The University on the Hill - The History of Todd Park by Neil Penman
85.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Not in Narrow Seas: The economic history of Aotearoa New Zealand by Brian Easton
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
Not in Narrow Seas is a major contribution to the history of Aotearoa New Zealand. It covers everything from the traditional gift-based Māori economy to the Ardern government's attempt to deal with the economic challenges of global warming, and is the first economic history to underline the central role ...Show more
The First: The Walsh Brothers and the Aeroplane Days of Edwardian New Zealand by Terry Moyle
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
For the first time the true story of New Zealand's first successful aeroplane flights and the people behind them. Extensive research provides new understanding of historic events and corrects more than a hundred years of history with a starting account of what really happened in 1911 and how Manurewa, t ...Show more