Secrets & Treasures - Our Stories Told Through the Objects at Archive New Zealand by Ray Waru
$24.00 NZD
$59.99 (59% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: Very Good
Intriguing stories behind the diverse objects in Archives New Zealand. The bizarre jostles with the extremely significant in the almost 100 kilometres of holdings in Archives New Zealand, the official guardian of the record of government. The thousands of boxes contain all sorts of treasures and secrets ...Show more
Four Sons of Skye : A History of a Tolmie Family From Skye, Scotland to Otago, New Zealand by James G.H. McKay.
$54.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
This fully indexed book of 272 pages with End Notes and a Bibliography, maps, charts and photos is in two sections. The first section briefly traces Tolmie history from the MacLeods of Lewis and later the MacLeods of Gairloch who were banished to Skye in the 1500s and their resulting name change to Tolm ...Show more
Peter McLeavey - The Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer by Jill Trevelyan
$64.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: very good
From Montana award-winning author Jill Trevelyan comes the first biography of Peter McLeavey, the charismatic, pioneering art dealer who since the 1950s has shaped - even transformed - New Zealand art. McLeavey's personal story is remarkable but in it, his contemporaries will recognise common themes: th ...Show more
Images of War: New Zealand and the First World War in Photographs by Glyn Harper
$84.99 NZD
$99.99 (15% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical
In a major research project, Glyn Harper and the National Army Museum combined official war photographs with more informal images to provide a moving visual history. Originally published in 2008, this book has now been beautifully redesigned as a stunning large-format hardback. While primarily drawn fro ...Show more
Meet You at the Church Steps: A Social History of a Nelson Landmark by Karen Stade
$65.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
Meet You At The Church Steps captures the unfolding social tapestry that has played out on Church Hill and its historic steps since the arrival in November 1841 of the New Zealand Company to establish the colony of Nelson. Published to mark the 2013 centennial of the Cawthron Steps, the ornate granite s ...Show more
The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict by James Belich
$85.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
On The Wings Of History : Volume One The Beginning Of The Vintage Aviator Collection, 2nd Edition by Allan Udy and Alex Mitchell
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
This completely updated and revised edition of this pictorial book catalogues and illustrates the development and growth of the incredible collection of full size World War 1-era aircraft that The Vintage Aviator Ltd has maintained, built and operated throughout the first thirteen years of the 21st Cent ...Show more
Unforgettable: Defining Moments in New Zealand Sport by Joseph Romanos
$39.99 NZD
Category: Sport
Joseph Romanos is one of New Zealand's leading sports writers. He has been (and still is) a sports columnist for 16 newspapers since 1982, has written 45 books (mainly on sport), and has had weekly sports slots on Radio Sport and Radio New Zealand. He has been attending Olympic and Commonwealth Games si ...Show more
Annie's War: A New Zealand Woman and Her Family in England 1916-19 by Susanna Montgomerie Norris
$31.00 NZD
$45.00 (31% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical
Annie's War is a remarkable book. There have been many published collections of soldiers' diaries and letters from the First World War, but never a first-hand account of one New Zealand family's life in England during these challenging and frightening years. When her sons, Oswald and Seton, decided they ...Show more
Latching On: 50 Years of Breastfeeding Support - La Leche League in New Zealand 1964-2014 by Louise Shaw
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
During the 1960s, as breastfeeding rates plummeted, a group of mothers began a quiet revolution that was to change the way New Zealand babies were fed. Following the lead of an American voluntary organisation, the women set up a remarkable mother-to-mother support group, which met for the first time on ...Show more
Wimpy - A Detailed Illustrated History of the Vickers Wellington in Service, 1938-1953 by Steve Bond
$69.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
To date there has been a paucity of books on this remarkable aircraft. Among its claims to fame are the following: the only RAF bomber to serve in its original role from first day of war to last, and in every theatre; the first type to bomb Germany; the first type to bomb Berlin; the first type to drop ...Show more
Lake Coleridge: the Power, the People, the Land by Rosemary Britten
$39.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
This work traces the life of a cold, clean and very deep lake in the foothills of the southern Alps, some 100km from Christchurch. It tells of the swift rivers which rush by and are diverted into it, the hills and mountains around it, and the animals and plant life in and around the lake.