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Black Flu 1918 by Geoffrey Rice
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
Many New Zealand families were affected by the 1918 influenza pandemic. In the space of about six weeks, over 6400 Pakeha died and an estimated 2500 Maori. That equals nearly half the total of New Zealand soldiers killed in the First World War. Yet these were civilians, dying in the first month of peace ...Show more
Christchurch Changing: an Illustrated History by Geoffrey Rice
$39.99 NZD
Category: Canterbury & Christchurch
This lively survey tells the story of a major New Zealand city, the capital of Canterbury province and the South Island's largest metropolitan centre. Why was the city established in the middle of a swamp? What was it like to live in Christchurch in the 1850s, the 1870s or the 1940s? What has changed, w ...Show more
Christchurch Crimes 1850 - 1875 by Geoffrey Rice
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
While researching a different book, historian Geoffrey W. Rice was poring through old newspaper reports and was struck by the number of articles about crime in Victorian Christchurch. Fascinated by what he was reading, he became diverted from the task at hand and set about writing this book instead: abo ...Show more
Christchurch Crimes and Scandals 1876 -99 by Geoffrey W. Rice
$35.00 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
The Boxing Day Riot of 1879 when a parade of Orange Lodge members was attacked by a mob of Irish Catholic navvies swinging axe-handles, a slander case involving one of the city's richest merchants, the famous Severed Hand Mystery of 1885 ... Following on from his first volume, Christchurch Crimes 1850-1 ...Show more
Cricketing Colonists by Rice Geoffrey
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
John Robert Godley, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, James Edward FitzGerald - these are the names that usually come to mind as the founders of Canterbury. But there was a fourth vitally important individual, arguably equal in importance to FitzGerald, whose story remains largely unknown. William Guise Brittan ...Show more
Lyttelton: Port and Town - an Illustrated History: Port and Town - an Illustrated History by Geoffrey Rice
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Secondhand. Signed by the author. The story of Christchurch's main port and one of its oldest boroughs. From the 'Pilgrim Port' of the 1850s, with its single jetty to receive thousands of Canterbury Assocaition settlers to the bustling modern port town of today.This is the story of Canterbury's main po ...Show more
Quackery in Christchurch 1850-1900 by Geoffrey W. Rice
$42.50 NZD
Category: Canterbury & Christchurch | Reading Level: very good
Quackery is simpley defined as medical practice that has no scientific basis, yet, thanks to the Covid pandemic, alternative medication and treatments are again on the rise all over the world. Mainstream doctors have always warned against placing reliance on patient medicines, herb, homepathy, phrenolo ...Show more
Victoria Square: Cradle of Christchurch by Geoffrey W. Rice
$19.99 NZD
$59.99 (66% off)
Category: Canterbury & Christchurch
Victoria Square, that green and peaceful oasis in the centre of Christchurch, has a special claim to fame: it is the only city square in the world with a river running through it. And it has a rich and varied history, starting in 1850 when, as Christchurch's Market Place, it was the centre of commerce i ...Show more
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