From Gold Mine to Firing Line: "The Thames" and the Great War 1914-1918 by Meghan Hawkes
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
As it Was: Growing Up in Grey Lynn and Ponsonby Between the Wars by Russell Stone
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
Growing Up in Grey Lynn and Ponsonby Between the Wars
Treaty of Waitangi by Calman Ross
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
A short, balanced introduction to the nation's founding document. In plain language it covers the events around the signing of The Treaty of Waitangi, and what has happened since. Also included is information on the key personalities, a wealth of illustrations, and the full text of the treaty, in Englis ...Show more
The Whole Intimate Mess (BWB Texts) by Holly Walker
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Very Good
'I began to pull the threads of my experience back together. Instead of divergent stories about public failure, private torment, and postnatal distress, I started telling myself a united story: the truth, or as close as I could get to it.' A Rhodes scholar and former Green MP, Holly Walker tells the sto ...Show more
The Women's Suffrage Petition Te Petihana Whakamana Poti Wahine1893 by Barbara Brookes
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
You do Not Travel in China at the Full Moon by Francis Barbara
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Very Good
Description: In April 1938 Agnes Moncrieff, in her role as the YWCA of New Zealand's foreign secretary to the YWCA of China, wrote to her mother, 'You do not travel in China at the full moon if you can help. There are always air raids.' Nessie, as she preferred to be called, was an indomitable spirit an ...Show more
The Great New Zealand Robbery by Scott Bainbridge
32.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
It should be remembered as New Zealand's answer to Britain's Great Train Robbery, but instead it's been almost completely forgotten. In the dead of the night, robbers broke into the commission building and made off with an audacious loot equivalent to almost $1 million today. This 1956 heist, which even ...Show more
Astride a Fierce Wind by Huberta Hellendoorn
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Astride a Fierce Wind is a story of the life of an immigrant and what it means to leave one home behind and cross the world to find another. But it is also the story of a life of a woman who faces huge difficulties and yet chooses instead to see beauty and strength and freedom and love. Huberta Hellendo ...Show more
Images from Albertland : Harold Marsh, 1876 to 1948 - Silver Edition by Paul Campbell
77.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Near Fine
William Harold Marsh, farmer, father, early Albertlander and adventurous photographer captured a time of enchantment, when life was lived at a slower pace and governed by a different set of values, priorities and ambitions. One of the first generation of those immigrants who sailed around the world to s ...Show more
Lost Boys of Anzac by Peter Stanley
42.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Australians remember the dead of 25 April 1915 on Anzac Day every year. But do we know the name of a single soldier who died that day? What do we really know about the men supposedly most cherished in the national memory of war?Peter Stanley goes looking for the Lost Boys of Anzac: the men of the very f ...Show more