Charleston: Its Rise and Decline by Irwin Faris
$52.50 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
Famous for its dozens of hotels, one for every 150 people, and its Casino girls, Charleston was New Zealand's classic gold mining town. Springing from nowhere in 1866, Charleston grew into a bustling prosperous centre and just as soon collapsed when the gold was gone. First published in 1941, this is a ...Show more
Charleston: Its Rise and Decline (Capper Reprint) by Irwin Faris
$75.00 NZD
Category: West Coast
Coal and the Coast - A reflection on the Pike River disaster by Paul Maunder
$21.50 NZD
Category: West Coast | Reading Level: Very Good
The bodies of 29 men are still entombed in the collapsed Pike River mine, more than a year after the tragic explosion and fire of 19 November 2010. What do their deaths mean for workplace health and safety? Is there a future for coalmining in this era of climate change? How has the Coast changed from th ...Show more
Eketahuna: Stories from Small Town New Zealand by Peter Best
$24.50 NZD
Category: West Coast
To many New Zealanders, Eketahuna is the archetypal small town. It was a frontier township carved out of the bush that became a closely knit community servicing the surrounding farming district. In this book, Peter Best delves into some of the intriguing byways of Eketahuna?s early history that give the ...Show more
Fiordland by Jack McClenaghan
$30.00 NZD
Category: West Coast
The story of the "Empty Quarter" of New Zealand's South Island.
Forests Fiords and Glaciers - New Zealands World Heritage Mar by Gerald Hutchings; Craig Potton
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
Gold Days of Nelson Creek by Peaches Eaton
$47.50 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
Describes the history of gold mining at Nelson Creek in Westland, the origins of fate of a once bustling gold rush town. Illustrated. First published in a limited edtion in 1976, this is a facsimile print.
Gold Rush - Tales & Traditions of the New Zealand Goldfields by Gordon Ell
$27.50 NZD
Category: West Coast | Reading Level: very good