The Face of Nature: An Environmental History of the Otago Peninsula by Jonathan West
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
Bounded by the wild waves of the Pacific on the east, and the more sheltered harbour on the west, the Otago Peninsula is a remarkable landscape. Today a habitat for a diverse array of wildlife including albatrosses, penguins and seals, the Peninsula has undergone dramatic changes since it first attracte ...Show more
Letters from Everest: A New Zealander's Account of the Epic First Ascent by George Lowe
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
In this touching book, unpublished letters from the Lowe collection are brought together for the first time to describe the day-to-day moments of the historic 1953 Everest expedition. Lowe met Hillary while working in New Zealand's Southern Alps just after the war and struck up a friendship. Little did ...Show more
The Official History of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own): Covering the Period of Service with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War from 1915 to 1919 by W. S. Austin
$85.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
This is the story of a Brigade which served as part of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War. It is a regimental history, the official records, from which for the most part it has been compiled. Mention is made from time to time of bold leading and collective and individual acts of daring ...Show more
Peter Snell and the Kiwis Who Flew by Walker Vern
$44.99 NZD
Category: Sport
This was the great era (1956-1965) when New Zealand middle and long-distance runners showed a clean pair of heels to the world...Peter Snell, Murray Halberg, Bill Baillie, Marise Chamberlain, John Davies, Jeff Julian, Barry Magee and Neville Scott. It was a decade when 'black' signalled a tough time for ...Show more
New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame: 25 Kiwi Champions by Maria Gill
$24.99 NZD
Category: Sport
Here are 25 of New Zealand’s finest sportspeople, across the range of sporting disciplines, and including the old and great alongside the young bucks, the new rising stars. All of these sportspeople have succeeded on the world stage and many began their careers at a very young age.Discover how they ach ...Show more
Diggers' Story by Bradshaw Julia
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
These fascinating 'tales and reminiscences of the Golden Coast direct from Westland's earliest pioneers' were originally compiled by Carl Pfaff for The Diggers' Story, first published in 1914 to mark the 50th anniversary of the gold rushes that transformed this remote part of New Zealand. Long out of pr ...Show more
Braemar Station by Duncan and Carol Mackenzie
$70.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
· Braemar Station is written and published by Duncan & Carol McKenzie, former owners of Braemar station, celebrating 50 years of farming on a Mackenzie Country station. · Braemar is a 64,000 acre Station situated on the eastern side of Lake Pukaki in the Mackenzie Country. Duncan and Caro ...Show more
Central Otago History in Bite-Sized Chunks by Nicola McCloy
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
Ghosts of Anzac by Onesimus William Howe
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: Near Fine
Description: Old soldiers never tell their war stories? This one did: "General Johnstone tried to compliment us on our 'work' but was cut up too much when he heard of our losses. He was visibly affected. We marched to Mametz Wood and there Col. Plugge also tried to address us but he could not control h ...Show more
Unearthly Landscapes : New Zealand's Old Cemeteries by Stephen Deed
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
By the nineteenth century the ancient parish churchyards of Britain, burdened with generations of dead, were unable to cope with the strain of rising numbers of corpses. Public concern about health problems eventually put an end to the local parish churchyard burial, and by the time settlers set sail fo ...Show more
The Larnachs by Owen Marshall
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: very good
Based on a real love triangle, this fascinating novel is by one of New Zealand's most-respected authors. 'Dougie's story and mine is not told in the history of William Larnach. It is our private journey, and only we understand how it came about; only we know the fitness and the wonder of it.' William Ja ...Show more
The Myers by Paul Goldsmith & Michael Bassett
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: Very Good
The Myers is a sweeping study of four generations of the Myers family. It moves from Prussian Poland to the goldfields of Ballarat to bankruptcy in the South Island and then to a growing fortune in beer and liquor. It tells the story of local government involvement by the first two generations, and the ...Show more