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The Story of Nelson Aviation by Richard Waugh & Graeme McConnell
$40.00 NZD
Category: Aviation
Aviation's influenece on Nelson has been profound. With challenging road access, no rail link and the barrier of Cook Strait, Nelson had the reputation of being a 'sleepy hollow'. It was isolated and in some way still is, yet has never been the same since the first aircraft visit in 1921. After aero clu ...Show more
Meet You at the Church Steps: A Social History of a Nelson Landmark by Karen Stade
$42.00 NZD
Category: Nelson
Meet You At The Church Steps captures the unfolding social tapestry that has played out on Church Hill and its historic steps since the arrival in November 1841 of the New Zealand Company to establish the colony of Nelson. Published to mark the 2013 centennial of the Cawthron Steps, the ornate granite s ...Show more
The Making of the French Pass Road in the Marlborough Sounds by Ian Dougherty
$24.00 NZD
Category: Nelson
DoP 2008, Auckland A-4 / 24pp Softcover Port Ligar farmer Jack Shand put it succinctly at the official opening of the Te Towaka-Port Ligar Road in 1968. "We were out on a limb. Now we are on the trunk and can go anywhere in New Zealand by road."The French Pass district in the northwest of the Marlboroug ...Show more
Nelson Pine The Story
$45.00 NZD
Category: Nelson
Nelson Pine Industries was established in 1984, as a manufacturing facility to add value to the Nelson region’s renewable resource of Pinus radiata plantation forests. Production of Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF) started in 1986, with a second line commissioned in 1991. The third line, commissioned in ...Show more
Abel Tasman Coastal Track: the Best Bit of New Zealand by Mike Crudge
$17.00 NZD
Category: Nelson
Dop October 2008, NZ 48pp softcover 240mmx170mm The Abel Tasman National Park iS the best bit of New Zealand. That's what Mike Grudge thinks and plenty of people agree. Situated at the top of New Zealand's South Island near the towns of Motueka and Takaka, the Coastal Track will amaze you with its ...Show more
Hard Country: A Golden Bay Life by Robby (Robin) Robilliard
$40.00 NZD
Category: Nelson
Robby Robilliard and her husband Garry arrived in Golden Bay in 1957. Married in their early twenties, and with a child on the way, they longed to own their own sheep station. When they bought Rocklands, a marginal farm on the fringe of the Takaka Valley, bordering Abel Tasman National Park, their dream ...Show more
Nicotine Flavoured Scones for Smoko by Shirley Heath Bastin
$38.00 NZD
Category: Nelson
Tobacco has permeated life in New Zealand since first arriving here, and the stuff continues its insidious hold even after the demise of the local tobacco growing industry in 1995. The 'golden harvest' of tobacco is more than a blip in New Zealand's horticultural history - for seven decades tobacco domi ...Show more
Old Nelson : A postcard history, 1900-1940 by Rob Packer and Barney Brewster
$50.00 NZD
Category: Nelson
Nelson's First Railway and the City Bus by Mike Johnston
$35.00 NZD
Category: Nelson
A history of the Dun Mountain Railway, which gave access to several of the copper and chromite mines east of Nelson city, and a passenger service known as the Dun Mountain (or City) bus operated on the same line between the city centre and Port Nelson.