Among Secret Beauties: A Memoir of Mountaineering in New Zealand and the Himalayas by Brian Wilkins
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Fine
Climbing entered the world stage in the 1950s: this was the era that produced not only Sir Edmund Hillary but a strong body of world-class New Zealand climbers. In this important and dramatic book Brian Wilkins, who was part of the adventure, shares his experiences of climbing in the Southern Alps and t ...Show more
Over the Mountains of the Sea : Life on the migrant ships 1870-1885 by David Hastings
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Second hand. This lively, well-illustrated and very readable book draws on shipboard diaries and archival sources to give a vivid picture of the voyage out to New Zealand during the crucial Vogel period. Using information on individual ships, voyages and passengers Hastings follows the narrative of the ...Show more
Petals & Bullets by Mark Derby
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
It was bright moonlight – good bombing light – and once we had to stop and put out our lights as a Fascist aeroplane flew over. They usually come swooping down with guns firing at cars, especially ambulances. Finally we arrived at a town among the hills about 12.30 p.m. Here there is a hospital of about ...Show more
Treasure Below by John Pettit
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
John Pettit took up skindiving as a means of relaxation from the pressure of business. His first trip with the legendary Kelly Tarlton stemmed from a desire to dive the virgin waters of the Three Kings in 1967. It was only after they arrived at the Kings that he discovered the real purpose of the trip w ...Show more
Family Business by VINCENT MOLETA
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Bartolo Barnao first sailed into Wellington in 1902, aged 13, and began work in the fish trade. Eight years later he revisited Stromboli to marry the bride who had been chosen for him by the parish priest in his village. Bartolo and Giuseppa returned to New Zealand and raised their five children in Palm ...Show more
Gathering for God - George Brown in Oceania by Helen Bethea Gardner
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Combining 'the gathering of artefacts with the gathering of souls', George Brown was a key figure in the Christian, and especially the Wesleyan Methodist, history of nineteenth-century Oceania. Using his life as a case study, Helen Bethea Gardner examines the role of Christian missionaries in the Pacifi ...Show more
Rural Delivery: Poems and Images from New Zealand Farms by Stephen Robinson
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Near Fine
Who knew that inside the rugged exterior of many a farmer beats the heart of a poet? Photographer Stephen Robinson came across some of these poems on his travels and set out to collect up more of them to accompany a wide-ranging set of his farm-themed images. From the joys and exhaustion of high-country ...Show more
Knocking About in New Zealand by Charles L. Money
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Gold & Mining History
Faring South - Including Gold Mining in New Zealand and The Kokopu by J.H. Lyon
$37.50 NZD
Category: Early NZ