Turning Points: Events That Changed the Course of New Zealand History by Paul Moon
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
What constitutes a turning point? In his new book, leading historian Paul Moon has chosen 20 pivotal events that have shaped the course of New Zealand history over the years. Each event is described as a discrete story and illustrated with photographs drawn from the archives, and Moon outlines how New Z ...Show more
Built for Justice: Visits to Old North Island Courthouses by Terry Carson
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
Built for Justice tells the story behind 61 old North Island courthouse buildings. Designed and typeset by award winning book designer Anna Egan-Reid, Built for Justice is an attractive hard cover, 176 page book, illustrated with 90 colour images and fifteen black and white. The book through photographs ...Show more
New Zealand and the First World War 1914-1919 by Damien Fenton
$75.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
The first of its kind for New Zealand - a lavish, landmark production - New Zealand and the First World War dynamically illustrates 50 key episodes of our wartime life. Featuring over 500 images, many previously unpublished, the book comes with a host of memorabilia including fold-out maps, posters, boo ...Show more
When the Farm Gates Opened - The Impact of Rogernomics on Rural New Zealand by Neal Wallace
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: very good
The economic reforms launched by the 1984 David Lange-led Labour government changed New Zealand forever. Agriculture bore the brunt of those changes and Rogernomics, the name by which the era came to be known, became an historical reference point for the primary sector: a defining and pivotal moment whe ...Show more
My father: Richmond E. Harrison and how his life was gradually wrecked by the Exclusive Brethren by Peter Wycherley. Harrison
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
This book gives a revealing picture of the repressive culture in the Exclusive Brethren Church. Most New Zealanders have heard of Exclusive Brethren following controversy over its secret support for the National Party in the 2005 election. Others know members as decent neighbours or business associates ...Show more
Historic Places of New Zealand by Rob Suisted
$9.99 NZD
$19.99 (50% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical
New Zealand's historic places are tied intrinsically to the landscape, where evidence of the earliest settlements are clearly visible. In the latest title in his compact pictorial series, photographer Rob Suisted has recorded our most impressive and popular heritage sites. Early Maori pa and earthworks ...Show more
The Healthy Country? - A history of life & death in New Zealand by Alistair Woodward; Tony Blakely
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: good-very good
In this book, Alistair Woodward and Tony Blakely tell the extraordinary story of life and death in Aotearoa New Zealand from first Maori settlement to the 21st century. Did Maori or Europeans live longer 1769? How did Pakeha New Zealanders become the healthiest, most long lived people on the face of the ...Show more
Waitangi Day: The New Zealand Story by Philippa Werry
$24.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
Aimed at younger readers but providing an excellent resource for the whole family, this new book looks at the rich history behind Waitangi Day, universally recognised as New Zealand's national day. It reviews the historic events behind the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 and charts the celebr ...Show more
Rusty to the Rescue by Robert Findlay
$19.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
The story about Rusty to the Rescue came about from a conversation between two adults that I overheard as a child. They were saying that two yachts had capsized during a yacht race the Howick Yacht Club was holding and that they were stranded on Flat Island (as the locals called it). A local dignitary, ...Show more
Migration Ethnicity and Madness: New Zealand 1860 - 1910
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
Australians at War in New Zealand: New Zealand Land Wars, 1860-1867 by Frank Glen
$39.99 NZD
$64.99 (38% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: New
There are many memorials to Australia’s war dead; among them are two permanent reminders to the Australian participation in the New Zealand Wars. The entrance to the Anglesey Barracks in Hobart is dominated by a tall column memorial to the members of the 99th Regiment that sailed from Hobart to take par ...Show more
Passport to Hell by Robin Hyde
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: Near Fine
Passport to Hell is the story of James Douglas Stark--Starkie--and his war. Journalist and novelist Robin Hyde came across Starkie while reporting in Mt Eden Gaol in the 1930s and immediately knew she had to write his 'queer true terrible story'. The result was greeted by John A. Lee, war veteran, autho ...Show more