Guinness Down Under by Smith Rod
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
Guinness is a name instantly recognised the world over -- the famous stout has been brewed at St James's Gate in Dublin for over 250 years, and is now brewed under contract in fifty countries and 9 million glasses of Guinness are drunk each day worldwide. Guinness family members, originally in three maj ...Show more
Against All Odds by Jillian Rothwell
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
This dramatic story of hope and devotion is based entirely on the cache of letters and documents found in an old 1930s leather suitcase. Intrigued by these family letters, Jillian Rothwell travelled half way across the world to trace generations of her family's journey from the Hapsburg Empire's Eastern ...Show more
Accidental Immigrants. They sailed for India but settled in New Zealand by John Ewan
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History | Reading Level: Near Fine
New Zealand Mysteries by Scott Bainbridge
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
New Zealand’s history is peppered with mysterious tales of otherworldly beings, strange sightings, inexplicable disappearances and unusual crimes. While some of these stories have been handed down through generations, many of them hail from more recent times. The one thing they all have in common is tha ...Show more
A History of New Zealand Women by Barbara Brookes
70.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History | Reading Level: near fine
What would a history of New Zealand look like that rejected Thomas Carlyle's definition of history as 'the biography of great men', and focused instead on the experiences of women? One that shifted the angle of vision and examined the stages of this country's development from the points of view of wives ...Show more
Thief, Convict, Pirate, Wife - The Many Histories of Charlotte Badger by Jennifer Ashton
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History | Reading Level: very good
Thief, Convict, Pirate, Wife: Unravelling the many mysteries surrounding one of the first Pakeha women residents in New Zealand.This is a story of doubt. It is a story of people who left little trace. . . . There are no writings to pore over; no monuments to gaze at; no perfectly preserved homes to visi ...Show more
Tamatea Dusky: The Remarkable Story of Fiordland's Dusky Sound by Peta Carey
70.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
The remarkable story of conservation and history in Fiordland's Tamatea/Dusky Sound, by Peta Carey. With a fascinating history, both Maori and European, it is the place where Captain Cook arrived in 1773, and where ground-breaking conservation began in New Zealand over 120 years ago.
He Reo Wahine: Māori Women's Voices from the Nineteeth Century by Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
During the nineteenth century, Maori women produced letters and memoirs, wrote off to newspapers and commissioners, appeared before commissions of enquiry, gave evidence in court cases, and went to the Native Land Court to assert their rights. He Reo Wahine is a bold new introduction to the experience o ...Show more
Great Tales from New Zealand History by Gordon McLauchlan
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History | Reading Level: near fine
An intriguing collection of tales plucked from the byways of our country's history by a master storyteller who recognises a good yarn when he sees it. Gordon McLauchlan tempts our imagination with 46 little-known tales from New Zealand¿s past. Here you will discover: - that Auckland applied twice to the ...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
Waitangi: A Living Treaty by Matthew Wright
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
Acclaimed historian Matthew Wright explores the evolution of New Zealand's most historically significant document, the Treaty of Waitangi, from its origins to its place in the present day. From the early cultural collisions between Maori and Pakeha that led to this landmark agreement, to the many reinte ...Show more
Kainga - People, Land and Belonging (BWB Texts) by Paul Tapsell
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
Is New Zealand ready to not just tick the Treaty partnership box, but actually open it and accept that Māori community-driven world views concerning their whenua is equally valid science, capable of underpinning, guiding and reshaping agricultural science and farming practices? This book calls for poli ...Show more