The Christchurch Earthquake: The New Zealand Defence Force responds
$30.00 NZD
Category: Christchurch City & Banks Peninsula
Secondhand. A hardcover book that details in words and photographs the response of the New Zealand Army, Air Force and Navy to the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
Still More Grady's People: Still More Unfortgettable Charaters in the Top of the South Island by Don Grady
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Regional History
Secondhand. This is the third book in the popular Grady's People series. Don Grady has assembled another great collection of stories and photographs about 30 fascinating people who live in the top of the South Island. They include Bill Brownlee of Te Puru Bay in the Marlborough Sounds and the remarkabl ...Show more
A History of Rotorua: A Brief Survey of the Settlement of Rotorua and environs by our Pioneers, Maori and Pakeha by Enid Tapsell
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Regional History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. This book, some pages of which hold as much thrill and tragedy as those of a "wild west" novel, is a "human interest" history of Rotorua and environs, over the period from circa 1350 A.D. to the early 20th century, and deals with the Maori, the trader, missionaries, explorers, the Armed Con ...Show more
The Kapiti Coast: Maori Tribal History and Place Names of the Paekakariki-otaki District by W. C. Carkeek
$185.00 NZD
Category: NZ Regional History
Secondhand. First edition. Illustrated with b/w photographs and maps. The most authoritative account of the Maori history and place names of the Paekakariki-Otaki district, the heartland of the iwi Ngati Raukawa.
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: new
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