A Splendid Isolation: Gisborne East Coast 1950-2012 by Sheridan Gundry
$75.00 NZD
Category: Gisborne
Secondhand. A Splendid Isolation is a beautifully illustrated reference book chock-full of stories that detail the history of the Gisborne East Coast district from 1950 until 2012. The first major history of the region since J A Mackay's Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast of 1949, A Splendid Isola ...Show more
A Journey in time: Otepopo, Herbert and Waianakarua 1848-2005 by Dorothy McKenzie
$65.00 NZD
Category: Otago
Secondhand. A book of photos which gives a brief sketch of life as it has been lived in Otepopo, Herbert and Waianakarua for almost 160 years.
The Jubilee Book of Canterbury Rhymes by O. T. J. Alpers (ed.)
$42.50 NZD
Category: Canterbury
Secondhand. Popular Edition. Early poems collected from magazines and newspapers like Lyttelton Times, Canterbury Times, the Christchurch Press and Weekly Press, the Otago Witness, etc. Edited with an introduction and notes biographical and explanatory.
Above the City - A History of Otago Boys' High School 1863-2013 by Rory Sweetman
$47.50 NZD
Category: Otago | Reading Level: Near Fine
Secondhand. This is the first published history of one of New Zealand's oldest secondary schools. Commissioned to mark the 150th anniversary of the foundation of Otago Boys' High School in 1863, this book traces its early tribulations, its growth and development, and its response to the challenges of s ...Show more
Slippery Jim or Patriotic Statesman? - James Macandrew of Otago by R. J. Bunce
$30.00 NZD
Category: Otago
Secondhand. This is a biography of one of New Zealands most colourful and persuasive politicians. When James Macandrew arrived in Dunedin from Scotland in 1851, other settlers were impressed by his energy and enthusiasm for new initiatives. With his finger in a lot of commercial pies, he set about maki ...Show more
Pioneers of Martins Bay (First Edition) by Alice MacKenzie
$125.00 NZD
Category: NZ Regional History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. First edition. A lively and personal account of life in New Zealand's most remote settlement in a now almost abandoned district in the far south-west of the South Island, just north of the Milford sound. Written by a former resident. Excellent for social or family historians with interest ...Show more
The Shaky Isles - New Zealand Earthquakes (secondhand) by Anna Rogers
$30.00 NZD
Category: Christchurch City & Banks Peninsula | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Earthquakes are perhaps the most terrifying of all natural disasters. They strike without warning, they cannot be controlled, there is no escape. And New Zealand has suffered more than its fair share of major shakes, which have brought with them death, injury, fear and sometimes cripplingly ...Show more
Otago Cavalcade 1921-1925 by Hardwicke Knight
$22.50 NZD
Category: Otago | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. A predominantly pictorial account of Otago's history beginning in the year 1921 and covering all the years till 1925. These were the gay twenties. New Zealanders were not much aware of what was going on over the horizon: Hilter, Stalin, Gangsters in America or the massacre of Greek civilians ...Show more
Otago Cavalcade 1911-1915 by Hardwicke Knight
$22.50 NZD
Category: Otago | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. A predominantly pictorial account of Otago's history beginning in the year 1911 and covering all the years till 1915. It brings us to the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and to major political changes. Furthermore, this book intended to give a fair sample of what was looked at by that consi ...Show more
Otago Cavalcade 1901-1905 by Hardwicke Knight
$22.50 NZD
Category: Otago | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Reproductions of early photographs of Otago, compiled and captioned by Hardwicke Knight.
Akaroa by Gwenda Turner
$37.50 NZD
Category: NZ Regional History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. This book includes 64 original pen and wash drawings by the artist depicting the life and landscape of Akaroa.
Tapu-Kereta School and District Reunion 18??-1979 by Tapu-Kereta Reunion Committee
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Regional History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. A special record of over 100 years of settlement in Tappu, including the earliest activities, schooling, sports, the heyday of the Gold Rush, etc. Illustrated with b/w photographs.