Growing Together: Letters Between Frederick John Cato and Frances Bethune, 1881-1884 by Una B Porter
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Private published. Limited edition of 1000 copies. This volume is number 252. These letters record the beginnings of a commercial enterprise which subsequently grew to prosperity and fame as Moran and Cato Pty Ltd. Above all, they showed to young people growing in themselves, intellectually ...Show more
Kiwi Companeros: New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War by Mark Derby (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Signed by the author to Edmund Bohan. In the first-ever account of New Zealand's role in Spain's civil war of 1936-39, Mark Derby presents the personal stories of some extraordinary individuals who became involved. For example: A fighter pilot from Wellington who landed his plane with a sha ...Show more
Te Ata o Tū: The Shadow of Tumatauenga by Matiu Baker, Katie Cooper, Mihael Fitzgerald and Rebecca Rice (editors)
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ Land Wars
The New Zealand Wars of 1845-72 were a series of bitter and bloody conflicts between Maori and Pakeha that extended from Wairau to the Bay of Islands, and from Taranaki to the East Cape. They are as important to New Zealand as the civil wars were to England and to the United States. Land and sovereignty ...Show more
The Story of Menzies Bay( Autographed Copy) by Ian H. Menzies
$125.00 NZD
Category: Early NZ | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Signed by the author. The Menzies family have lived at Menzies Bay on the Banks Peninsula since 1878. This book, written by Ian H. Menzies describes nearly a century of country life in a unique area.
Doctors Divided: Medical Societies in Christchurch 1865-97 by Geoffrey W. Rice
$35.00 NZD
Category: Early NZ | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Signed by the author. Meet some colourful and quarrelsome doctors. A fascinating and important story of increasing professionalism in a period of major transition from the era of blood-letting and miasmas to the modern medical world of bacteriology and epidemiology, vaccination and asepti ...Show more
New Zealand Mysteries: Secrets, Spooks, Conspiracies And Con Artists-Intrigues That Have Puzzled The Nation by Nicola McCloy
$32.50 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Very Good
Secondhand. Con artists, conspiracies, disappearances, deaths, mysterious creatures and unusual visitors - although our country's history is short, it is littered with mysteries that intrigue New Zealanders. This book brings together some of this country's strangest tales, from the ghostly canoe seen o ...Show more
Rangiwaea, Bell's Junction School 1905-2005 by Gordon Collier
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Rangiwaea School and a reunion of the Bell's Junction schools.
Pahoia School Jubilee 1927-1977 by Ernest E. Bush
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. There are two distinct parts to this publication. Part One is a history of Pahoia School including staff, committees, pupils alongside highlights, incidents memories and recollections. Part Two is a history of the district - it includes some of the Maori history of settlement, an unusual i ...Show more
Beyond the Battlefield: New Zealand and its Allies 1939-45 by Gerald Hensley
$42.50 NZD
Category: NZ & World War II | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Beyond the Battlefield by Gerald Hensley is the dramatic unknown story of New Zealand's involvement in World War II told for the first time, here in an accessible, popular and enjoyable read. Savage, Nash, Fraser, Freyberg, Churchill, Roosevelt, Menzies, all great names from New Zealand and ...Show more
Touching on Deaths: A Medical History of Early Auckland Based on the First 384 Inquests by GLUCKMAN, Laurie
$30.00 NZD
Category: Early NZ | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Auckland psychiatrist and medical historian, Laurie Gluckman, Discovered the only remaining record of the Auckland Coroners reports from 1840-1864 whilst searching through a garage sale. Laurie's transcription of the records is supplemented here by a wealth of historical data providing a va ...Show more
A Savage Country: The untold Story of New Zealand in the 1820s by Paul Moon
$21.50 NZD
Category: Early NZ | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. New Zealand in the 1820s had no government or bureaucratic presence; no newspapers were published; the literate population was probably no more than a couple of dozen people at any one time. Early explorers' assessments of New Zealand were haphazard at best - few knew what to make of this f ...Show more
The Correspondence School Silver Jubilee 1922-1947
$42.50 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. A booklet about the early history of The New Zealand Correspondence School (NZCS).