On the Move: Christchurch Transport Through the Years Volume 7 by Tramway Historical Society
$25.00 NZD
Category: Christchurch City & Banks Peninsula | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. This volume covers the Christchurch Tramway Board and its electric tramways 1921-54.
Beyond Waters Reach: Sefton School 125th Celebrations 24th & 25th October 2009
$17.50 NZD
Category: NZ Regional History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand.
Yesterday and Today in Otago 1840-1940
$20.00 NZD
Category: Otago
Secondhand. Yesterday & Today in Otago, 1840-1940, a pictorial sketch. Published under the auspices of the Court Committee of the Otago Provincial Centennial Council. Historical photographs and information related to the settlement of Otago over one hundred years.
Stories from Dallington: A Year of Quakes in a Christchurch Suburb by Lois E. Daly
$16.50 NZD
Category: Christchurch City & Banks Peninsula
Secondhand. This book contains personal narratives of Dallington residents’ experiences of the big quake of 4 September 2010, and during the year or so which following it. The stories have been told by people with a wide range of experiences – families with children at local schools; people living alon ...Show more
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