Pakeha Ta Moko by Trevor Bentley
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
Views on Pakeha receiving Moko have changed over the centuries. While today it is generally considered to be taboo, through the 19th century, Moko were often given to "Pakeha-Maori" - Pakeha men and women who lived within Maori tribes. A Moko on a Pakeha could be a sign of allegiance and belonging. Base ...Show more
Good as Gold: New Zealand in the 1980s by Matt Elliott
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
In the 1980s, life in New Zealand became brighter, louder, faster and wilder. While the decade is remembered for its big hair, bright clothing and excessive shows of wealth, it was also a time of social upheaval, protest and political reform. These years saw Kiwis make their mark on the global sport and ...Show more
Jumping Sundays - The Rise and Fall of the Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand by Nick Bollinger
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History | Reading Level: near fine
Award-winning writer Nick Bollinger’s deep history of the transformation of New Zealand life wrought by the counterculture in the 1960s and ’70s.On a Sunday afternoon in the spring of 1969, thousands of people defied Auckland city bylaws and came to party in Albert Park. A rock band played on the rotund ...Show more
The Front Line: Images of New Zealanders in the Second World War by Glyn Harper; Susan Lemish
80.00 NZD
Category: Military
NEW ZEALAND'S WAR THROUGH THE LENS OF THOSE WHO SERVED A landmark book exploring New Zealand's second world war effort through over 800 photographs, many never before published and many live-action shots takenby those at the front. The images span North Africa, Europe and the Pacific, as well as action ...Show more
The Forgotten Wars: Why the Musket Wars Matter Today by Ron Crosby
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
Ron Crosby brilliantly rewrites his seminal The Musket Wars on a thematic basis, simplifying it to a concise work full of maps and illustrations for the general reader. Distinguished author Ron Crosby outlines why the Musket Wars were a crucial phase of New Zealand history and should be taught today. ...Show more
Swim: A Year of Swimming Outdoors in New Zealand by Annette Lees
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History | Reading Level: near fine
This is a book about New Zealanders and their deep connection to swimming in the outdoors. Every neighbourhood has its swimming hole up the river, its local beach, or a back road to the lake. A love of swimming is one of the things that defines Kiwis, and all over the country the start of summer is mark ...Show more
Kia Kaha: A Storybook of Maori Who Changed the World by Stacey Morrison, Jeremy Sherlock
45.00 NZD
Category: Children - Reference
A powerful illustrated storybook for the tamariki and rangatahi of Aotearoa New Zealand celebrating Maoritanga! KIA KAHA is a collection of true stories about amazing Maori who have achieved incredible things. Each of them blazed a trail in their own way, and this pukapuka was written to show that with ...Show more
Touring Edwardian New Zealand by Paul Moon
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
The Edwardian era (1901-14) was fleeting but significant, perhaps nowhere more so than in Aotearoa New Zealand. At the turn of the twentieth century, many British regarded New Zealand as ‘the Britain of the South Seas’. Tourist promotions created an idealised impression of a country that was partly a c ...Show more
The Little Book of ANZACS: Lest We Forget by Orange Hippo!
17.00 NZD
Category: Gift | Series: The\Little Book Of... Ser.
The ANZAC experience through the eyes of the ordinary men that were there: raw authentic accounts from infantrymen not historians. Young nations do the bidding of empire and send their youth to a faraway war. Their soldiers arrive with a reputation for rebelling against authority and ill-discipline. The ...Show more
Dogs in Early New Zealand Photographs by Mike White
35.00 NZD
Category: Animals | Reading Level: very good
This entertaining selection of over 100 photos of New Zealand dogs reveals some of the more curious ways in which they have appeared in photographic collections from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dogs named Terror, Betsey Jane, Floss and Erebus appear alongside canines whose names are lo ...Show more
Chathams Resurgent: How the Islanders overcame 150 years of misrule by Hugh Rennie
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
In 1990 those living on Chatham Islands/ Rekohu/ Wharekauri faced crisis. Annexed to New Zealand by a London proclamation, the Islands had experienced 150 years of New Zealand control. Years of muddlement, some good intentions, financial waste exploitation and theft, and failure to deliver democratic ri ...Show more