Those Who Have the Courage - The History of the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps by Matthew Wright
$95.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military History
'Those Who Have the Courage will be a valuable resource for anyone who is interested in the military and social history of New Zealand. It is a comprehensive history of the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps, the Mounted Rifles and predecessor units ¿' - Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro, from the Foreword ...Show more
George Rhodes of the Levels and his Brothers: Early settlers of New Zealand, Particularly the story of the Founding of the Levels, the first sheep station in South Canterbury by A. E. Woodhouse
$285.00 NZD
Category: Early NZ | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. An in depth history and biography of the lives of the Rhodes' Brothers - William, Robert, Joseph, Peter and George - which also covers the early pastoral settlement of South Canterbury between 1839 and 1884. Illustrated with monochrome photographs and folded maps.
Postcards From the 20th Century: A Lifetime of Memories by New Zealand Women by HARRISON & BOYD
$21.50 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. In this absorbing book, ten New Zealand women look back on their lives throughout the twentieth century. They share memories of their families and themselves: Enid hides naked in the broom cupboard to avoid the mter reader; during 1942 Wellington earthquake Shirley runs through the heaving ...Show more
Presenting New Zealand: A Nation's Heritage by Philip Temple
$32.50 NZD
Category: NZ History
Secondhand. Lavishly illustrated with over 150 full colour and black and white historical and contemporary photographs, artworks and regional maps, Presenting New Zealand is a quintessential visual and informative account of how the country has developed in relative isolation into the independent natio ...Show more
The Team That Hit the Rocks: The Inside Story of the Wahine Disaster by Peter Jerram
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
In April 1968 the New Zealand interisland passenger ferry Wahine, a fast and modern ship for its time, hit Barrett Reef at the entrance to Wellington Harbour in a cyclone, the worst storm ever recorded in New Zealand's history. Six and a half hours later the ship heeled over and sank, with the eventual ...Show more
Fame Passes By:1769-1885 by Mona Gordon
$19.50 NZD
Category: Early NZ
Secondhand. This book contains five vivid studies of famous people who came to New Zealand between the years 1769-1885. Three of them made the long and perilous journey by sail, and two, in the early days of steamships. In these 160 years NZ was but an outpost of Empire, a land remote from the literary ...Show more
Uncanny Country by B E Baughan
$30.00 NZD
Category: Early NZ
A small booklet, Uncanny Country, the Thermal District of New Zealand. By B.E Baughan. Contains black & white photographs of early New Zealand thermal pools and areas.
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
Te Ata o Tū: The Shadow of Tumatauenga by Matiu Baker, Katie Cooper, Michael 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