In Hindsight: 50 Years of Deer Farming in New Zealand by Lynda Gray
$54.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
How deer in New Zealand changed within 50 years from being a feral pest to the basis of a farmed-livestock, $320-million export industry is a believe-it-or-not story. In Hindsight overviews this niche agricultural sector’s unconventional upbringing and comprehensively tracks its whirlwind rise to mains ...Show more
The Shearers : New Zealand Legends by Ruth Entwistle Low
$39.99 NZD
$45.00 (11% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical
The Shearers is a colourful account of the men and women, past and present, who have committed their lives to shearing in New Zealand. Their voices - in their own words, often brutally honest reflections on what it is to be a shearer - are at the heart of this book- their training, their tools, their ca ...Show more
Poles Down South: A Story of the Early Polish Settlers in Otago & Southland, Aotearoa New Zealand by Paul Klemick
$69.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
“A fascinating array of illustrations complement the text superbly. Seamlessly combining social history, labour history, migration history, and religious history, this book is solidly grounded in primary sources. It should interest not only the descendants of the original Polish settlers, but anyone i ...Show more
Shipwrecked: New Zealand Maritime Disasters by Mclean Gavin
$47.99 NZD
$59.99 (20% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical
Shipwrecks litter the coasts and reefs of New Zealand. Disasters at sea are no longer the regular occurrence they were in the days when sea travel was the main means of coastal and international transport, yet recent wrecks like the Rena show that perils remain. Shipwrecked retells the voyages of ships ...Show more
Mad on Meth - How New Zealand Got Hooked on P by Benedict Collins
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
The eye-opening evolution of crystal meth in New Zealand and what can be done about it Only fifty years ago in New Zealand, methamphetamine was a publicly prescribed drug used as widely as by housewives, shift workers, students, and anybody looking to party. Legal for decades, meth was about to undergo ...Show more
Auckland - The Twentieth-Century Story by Paul Moon
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: good-very good
Auckland: The Twentieth-Century Story journeys through the mosaic of cultures and lifestyles, anxieties and hopes, disasters and triumphs, virtues and vices that led to the transformation of New Zealand's largest city between 1900 and 2000.
For Cust's Sake by Peter L. Savage
$89.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
The author, Peter Savage, of Cust, has tried to let the people of the day speak through the written accounts of their time. The book is generously illustrated with sketches, photographs and maps, and readers will find a wealth of data on flourmill charges, shop inventories, railway fares and timetables, ...Show more
Mauri Ora: Wisdom from the Maori World by Peter Alsop & Te Rau Kupenga
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: near fine
Pearls of wisdom – whakataukī – have been gifted from generation to generation as an intrinsic part of the Māori world. As powerful metaphors, they combine analogy and cultural history in the most economical of words. Short and insightful, they take you by surprise, engendering reflection, learning and ...Show more
Te Ata o Tū: The Shadow of Tumatauenga by Matiu Baker, Katie Cooper, Michael Fitzgerald and Rebecca Rice (editors)
$70.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
The New Zealand Wars of 1845-72 were a series of bitter and bloody conflicts between Maori and Pakeha that extended from Wairau to the Bay of Islands, and from Taranaki to the East Cape. They are as important to New Zealand as the civil wars were to England and to the United States. Land and sovereignty ...Show more
Celebration of the Straw Man by Murray Rodgers
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
A sensitive and evocative account of the life of a New Zealand World War Two artillery soldier that gives insight into New Zealand's rural culture from the pre-depression years, the impact of war on a family through generations, and the magic of companionship in the New Zealand backcountry. The story is ...Show more
Fifty Years a Feminist by Sue Kedgley
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: very good
A pioneering New Zealand feminist reflects on fifty years of feminism. In 1971 Sue Kedgley and a group of other young feminists carried a coffin into Auckland’s Albert Park to protest against decades of stagnant advancement for New Zealand women since they won the right to vote in 1893. From that day, s ...Show more
ANZAC Day: The New Zealand Story by Philippa Werry
$24.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
Every year on the 25th of April, thousands of New Zealanders get up very early in the morning to join dawn parade ceremonies around the country. Later, many more people attend Anzac Day services to commemorate the soldiers who died at Gallipoli in 1915 and to celebrate the spirit of the ANZACs.A rich hi ...Show more