Bravo Kiwi - New Zealand Soldiers, Afghanistan and the Battle of Baghak by Craig Wilson
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Major Craig Wilson is a decorated former SAS member, and has been in more combat zones than any other Kiwi soldier. He was the commanding officer of Bravo Company, which lost 2 soldiers when they went to the aid Afghan police at Baghek in August 2012. Craig was left injured, shot in the shoulder, and wa ...Show more
Blood and Tears - A memorial to those killed by tribal and related violence
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
James Cook: The Voyages by William Frame
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Stunningly illustrated history tells the story of James Cook's three voyages into the Pacific, including his visits to New Zealand. Themes include the navigation and charting of the Pacific; first encounters between Western and indigenous cultures; the representation of the voyages in art; and scientifi ...Show more
Flies, Sand and Unwashed Socks - Letters from WWII: New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1940-1943 by R. G. Harris; Susan Cambridge
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Letters from WWII New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1940-1943 R.G. (Dick) Harris These letters are from Egypt, Greece, Syria, Libya, Tunisia, Italy: Dick Harris travelled huge distances in North Africa, the Middle East and Southern Europe. For more than three years he lived with bombing from the air and s ...Show more
The Pacific - In the Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill, in which Sam Neill retraces Cook's footsteps, in the 250th anniversary year of Cook's first voyage. Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768 - 250 years ago. These vast waters, ...Show more
Ghost South Road by Scott Hamilton
59.95 NZD
Category: NZ History
The Great South Road was built in 1862 to carry a British army into the Waikato Kingdom. When the British invaded the Waikato in 1863, soldiers shared the road with Maori refugees from Auckland. Today the eroding earthen walls of forts and pa and military cemeteries remember the road's history. They sit ...Show more
The Waikato - A History of New Zealand's Greatest River by Paul Moon
69.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
From snow to surf, the Waikato is New Zealand's longest river. This fascinating account takes a historical journey along its 425 kilometre length, uncovering extraordinary reports of the people, places and events along its route. Starting from a desolate, icy volcanic plateau, historian Paul Moon traces ...Show more
Scoundrels & Eccentrics of the Pacific by Dunmore John
45.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Scoundrels & Eccentrics of the Pacific is a new title delving into the adventurers who once made the great Pacific their playground ¿ from likeable dreamers to outright conmen, slavers and pirates, and even one self-titled Queen Emma. There¿s the extraordinary tale of James Proctor who used his wood ...Show more
Strangers Arrive - Emigres and the Arts in New Zealand 1930-1980 by Leonard Bell
75.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
From the 1930s through the 1950s, a substantial number of forced migrants - refugees from Nazism, displaced people after World War II and escapees from Communist countries - arrived in New Zealand from Europe. Among them were an extraordinary group of artists and writers, photographers and architects wh ...Show more
Guinness Down Under by Smith Rod
49.99 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
Kiwi School Days: A Collection of Interviews and Reflections 1928-1999 by Ross Sutton MA
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
The book entails 34 different interviews covering all regions of New Zealand. There are 98 schools represented covering Auckland, Waikato, Thames Valley, Hawkes Bay, Taranaki, Wanganui, Wairarapa, Hutt Valley, Wellington, Nelson, West Coast, Canterbury, Otago and Southland. Nearly every type of school ...Show more
Camera in the Crowd by Pugsley Christopher
80.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Filming and cinema quickly won the hearts of New Zealand from the mid-1890s, yet the story of the cameramen and the film they took here and in the First World War has never been fully captured. The Camera in the Crowd does that in style, bringing to fruition years of original research and archival work ...Show more