A Flitch of the Past - As Told by a Sawmiller's Daughter by Janette Langridge; Chris Webster (Illustrator)
$75.00 NZD
Category: West Coast
Second hand. Sawmilling ventures were part of the fabric of early West Coast history. This book tells the story of a family who, in 1937, seized the business opportunities provided by the vast forests of South Westland and set out on a journey that was to keep them there for the next forty-four years. ...Show more
A Life on Gorge River - New Zealand's Remotest Family by Robert Long
$30.00 NZD
Category: West Coast | Reading Level: very good
Robert Long and his family - wife Catherine, and children Christan (17) and Robyn (14) - live in complete isolation, in a hut two days' walk south of Haast in South Westland. Robert has lived there for nearly 30 years; Catherine for 20 and the kids all their lives. Their only contact with the outside wo ...Show more
A River Rules My Life by Mona Anderson
$42.50 NZD
Category: West Coast
Secondhand. Here tells the story of Mona Anderson's 23 years on one of the most isolated sheep farms in New Zealand, a 100,000-acre station that occupied most of the country between two great rivers, the Wilberforce and the Rakaia, from their junction back to the Main Divide of the Southern Alps ...Show more
Big River Quartz Mine 1882-1942: A Worthwhile Speculation by Les Wright
$50.00 NZD
Category: West Coast
First published in 1993. This is a copy of the third printing. This book outlines the history of the Big River quartz gold mine and tells the stories of some of those who lived and worked in this remote and inhospitable region. The Big River gold mine was located south of Reefton on New Zealand’s West ...Show more
Black Sands and Golden Years 1877-1979: Weheka-Fox Glacier School Jubilee by Margaret Hall
$55.00 NZD
Category: West Coast
Blackball 08 by Eric Beardsley
$10.00 NZD
Category: West Coast
Secondhand. Blackball 08 by Eric Beardsley. 'The Tiny West Coast settlement of Blackball, now in sad decline - 'neither alive nor dead . . . just Blackball' - comes to stirring and startling life in Eric Beardsley's masterly new novel. Why has this tiny mining town in the Grey Valley received so much a ...Show more
Blackball 08 by Eric Beardsley
$25.00 NZD
Category: West Coast
Story of a mine strike in I908 at Blackball, New Zealand. Second hand, soft cover.
Blackball: Our Place by Jo edgar & Jane Wells
$30.00 NZD
Category: West Coast | Reading Level: very good