The Clarence: People and Places of Waiau Toa by Tim Fulton
79.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
In The Clarence: People and Places of Waiau Toa, rural journalist Tim Fulton explores more than 200 kilometres of mountains, rivers and valleys bordering Canterbury and Marlborough. With its headwaters above Lake Tennyson, the Clarence has connected people for more than 800 years, from highly organised ...Show more
Selling Britishness - Commodity Culture, the Dominions, and Empire by Felicity Barnes
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
From the 1920s until the outbreak of the Second World War, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand filled British shop windows, newspaper columns, and cinema screens with "British to the core" Canadian apples, "British to the backbone" New Zealand lamb, and "All British" Australian butter. In remarkable yet ...Show more
The Fateful Voyage of the St Jean Baptiste - A true account of M de Surville's expedition to New Zealand and the Unknown South Seas 1769-70 by John Dunmore
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
In 1769, 20 years before the French Revolution, two famous navigators passed within 120 kms of each other off the coast of New Zealand; the first was Captain James Cook in command of the Endeavour; the other was French East India Company Captain Jean de Surville in the St Jean Baptiste. French-Pacific h ...Show more
Shared Histories by John Tane Christeller
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Across the motu there are places that remind those who stop there of the bloody battles between Maori iwi and the Crown known as the New Zealand Wars. Many don’t know where these places are, most don’t stop. In 2021 Palmerston North poet and artist John Tane Christeller decided to visit the sites and r ...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
Eketahuna: Stories from Small Town New Zealand by Peter Best
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
To many New Zealanders, Eketahuna is the archetypal small town. It was a frontier township carved out of the bush that became a closely knit community servicing the surrounding farming district. In this book, Peter Best delves into some of the intriguing byways of Eketahuna?s early history that give the ...Show more
Anzac Nations: The legacy of Gallipoli in New Zealand and Australia 1965-2015 by Rowan Light
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
In Anzac Nations: The legacy of Gallipoli in New Zealand and Australia, 1965 - 2015, author Rowan Light examines the myth-making around Anzac and how commemoration has evolved. Anzac Nations examines three key aspects: the changing and contested meanings of Anzac from the 1960s to the 1980s; the expande ...Show more
True Tales of The Coromandel's Eastern Seaboard - Revised 2021 edition
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Duigan's Circus by Peter Cooke
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
In 1915 the most destructive war ever was consuming Europe. Responding to the call, New Zealand sent a mine-warfare unit to fight the siege for civilisation. “So fierce was this struggle,” Dr Ian McGibbon ONZM says in his Foreword, “that the inexperienced New Zealand tunnellers were initially knocked of ...Show more
Tattooed History: The Story of Mokomokai by Kirkwood Paterson
79.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Tattooed History: The Story of Mokomokai traces the history, the preservation and the great success among collectors all over the world of Moko tattoos. They were used by the Maori people to emphasise their high social status. Through in-depth texts and historical testimonies we can discover and underst ...Show more
Henderson's Mill: How a Humble Timber Mill Became Henderson in West Auckland by Anthony G. Flude
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
In 1844 the Auckland firm Henderson & Macfarlane swapped a ship for some 18,000 acres of land in the Whau in West Auckland. Thomas Maxwell Henderson, the senior partner and a hard-nosed Scotsmen, then proceeded to tear out the tall kauri timber from the Waitakere ranges and mill it at Henderson's Mi ...Show more