George Crook - From the Redwoods to Appomattox by Paul Magid
$35.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. A new assessment of the frontier army commander, focusing on his early career Renowned for his prominent role in the Apache and Sioux wars, General George Crook (1828-90) was considered by William Tecumseh Sherman to be his greatest Indian-fighting general. Although Crook was feared by Indi ...Show more
George Michael - A Life by James Gavin
$35.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
In George Michael: A Life, "Gavin's engrossing biography of the singer takes the measure of a gifted, tragic, and infuriating man" (New York Times Book Review). George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic. He was a songwriter ...Show more
Gladstone
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. William Gladstone was, along with Winston Churchill, one of the most important prime ministers in Britain's history. He spent 63 years in the House of Commons and was prime minister four times, a unique accomplishment. This book also touches on his roles as a classical scholar, a wide-rangi ...Show more
Hef Ran Ta (The Morning Star): A biography of Wilson Inia, Rotuma's first senator by Alan Howard
$32.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. History without biography is cold and impersonal; it lacks the immediacy needed to make history personally meaningful. Heroes - historical models who exemplify the virtues of particular cultural traditions - are a vital part of every group's sense of themselves. For Rotuma, history must inc ...Show more
Henry Clay: America's Greatest Statesman by Harlow Giles Unger
$22.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. A compelling new biography of America's most powerful Speaker of the House, who held the divided nation together for three decades and who was Lincoln's guiding light In a little known chapter of early American history, a fearless Kentucky lawyer rids Congress of corruption and violence in ...Show more
Huge Stewart 1884-1934: Some Memories of His Friends and Colleagues by Ernest Weekley(ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
The memoir of the late Principal of University College, Nottingham, is the record of a full and gallant life, which began in a Scottish manse and ended, at the age of fifty, in one of the loneliest stretches of the Pacific.
Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford by Leslie Brody
$17.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
This is the definitive biography of the long and adventurous life of the queen of the muckrakers. Admirers and detractors use the same words to describe Jessica Mitford: subversive, muckraker, and, mischief-maker. But those who knew her best simply called her Decca. Born into one of Britain's most famou ...Show more
Island Boy: An Autobiography by Thomas R. A. H. Davis
$47.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. With illustrations by the author. Brought up in the multiple worlds of the Rarotonga waterfront, Sir Tom Davis, Pa Tuterangi Ariki, KFE, has always had access to all cultures and classes. The first Cook Islander to quality in New Zealand, he returned as a "Doctor to the Islands" (the title ...Show more
JFK Volume One 1917-1956 by Fredrik Logevall
$40.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
'A powerful, provocative, and above all compelling book' Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of The Soul of America The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, thirty-fifth p ...Show more