Blood & Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand by Jared Davidson
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Series: 1st
'Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard labour men guarded by other men with guns. Men moving heavy metal. Men picking at the earth. Over and over again. This was the reality of nineteenth-century New Zealand.' Forced labour haunts the ...Show more
Godley - The Man Behind the Myth by Terry Kinloch
$34.99 NZD
$69.99 (50% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: near fine
A comprehensive biography of General Sir Alexander Godley, presenting for the first time a fair and balanced look at his time as commander of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) and II ANZAC Corps during World War I. While Godley is generally remembered as being a poor field commander, Terry Kinl ...Show more
Tiny Statements - A Social History of Aotearoa New Zealand in Badges by Claire Regnault; Stephanie Gibson
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: near fine
The award-winning authors of this small book with a big heart delve into Te Papa’s collections of over 1600 badges to examine how New Zealanders have used badges to join, belong, resist, defy and celebrate. From protest groups and Girl Guides to sports clubs, animal breeds, tino rangatiratanga and suffr ...Show more
The Kalimpong Kids: The New Zealand story in pictures by Jane Mccabe
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
In the early 20th century, 130 young Anglo-Indians were sent to New Zealand in an organised immigration scheme from Kalimpong, in the Darjeeling district of India. They were the mixed-race children of British tea planters and local women, and were placed as workers with New Zealand families from the Fa ...Show more
Tank of Tobruk A New Zealand YMCA Secretary at War by Hector Tankersley MBE with Neil Frances
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
Sure To Rise: The Edmond's Story by Peter Alsop, Kate Parsonson, Richard Wolfe
$59.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
Edmonds is one of New Zealand's best-known brands - its radiant sun and 'Sure to Rise' promise have embellished baking powder labels and the much-loved Edmonds Cookery Book for over a hundred years and are now embedded in our popular culture. The man behind the company, Thomas Edmonds, came to New Zeala ...Show more
September 12: The Third Test and Final Protest of the 1981 Springbok Tour: 1981 by Anthony Phelps
$79.99 NZD
$85.00 (5% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical
A high quality artists book - 100 page photographic record of the Springbok Tour protests in Auckland, mainly on September 12 showing police, protesters, spectators and the violence that ensued as Aotearoa New Zealand's population were split apart and the public's relationship with the police changed fo ...Show more
New Zealand's Great War: New Zealand & Allies and the First World War by John Crawford & Ian McGibbon (eds)
$34.99 NZD
$89.99 (61% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: very good
This book is a collection of essays arising out of the 'Zealandia's Great War' conference organised by the New Zealand Military History Committee in November 2003. In 32 essays by distinguished military historians from New Zealand and around the world, various aspects of New Zealand's involvement in Wor ...Show more
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
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