Rhetoric at Red Dawn by John A Lee

$20.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good

80 Years behind the Lens

$40.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine

In A Strange Garden - The Life and Times of Truby King by Lloyd Chapman

$12.00 NZD

$34.95 (65% off)

Category: Biography | Reading Level: good

Truby King has touched the lives of most New Zealanders. Founder of the Plunket movement that led our mothers and grandmothers into military-style baby management, his influence is enormous. Although his extreme and restrictive views about women would be ridiculed today, he gave them a health regime tha t dramatically reduced child mortality and was the envy of the world. But who was Truby King? While researching roses grown in France over a hundred years ago, Lloyd Chapman kept stumbling over the name 'Truby King' in nursery records and soon discovered that King was a manic gardener who had imported thousands of plants from Europe. This was the start of a trail that led Chapman all around New Zealand, from abandoned model farms and goldmines to mental institutes and museums, in search of the enigmatic King - scientist, farmer, husband, father, famous baby doctor. The compelling portrait of a truly eccentric but gifted man. ...Show more

His Way - A Biography of Robert Muldoon by Barry Gustafson

$35.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

This authorized biography of a dominant figure in New Zealand political life since the mid-20th century, is based on many hours of conversation with Robert Muldoon himself, and interviews with political colleagues, civil servants, family and friends.

Life on a Five Pound Note by Evelyn Hosken

$15.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good

Te Puea - A Life by Michael King

$20.00 NZD

Category: Maori | Reading Level: good-very good

'When my life is written, I want the truth and nothing but the truth to be told' (Te Puea Herangi). This book fills a gap in New Zealand's history, documenting the dramatic events surrounding the nearest thing in New Zealand to a nationalist organisation: The Maori King Movement, and, more specifically, its leading Maori proponent Te Puea Herangi (1883? 1952). Highlights of her story include the movement's struggle to win recognition from successive governments, their pacifist stance during World War One, the catastrophic effects of the Influenza Epidemic, the battle to win Maori land unjustly confiscated, her alliance with Sir Apirana Ngata, and her charged opposition to the prophet T.W. Ratana. More than any other leader, Te Puea succeeded in strengthening Maori values through building relationships between major figures. First printed in 1977, Te Puea was reprinted twice in 1978, issued in a new edition in 1982 (reprinted 1984), a third edition in 1987 (reprinted in 1990 and 1993), and after ten years returns in this redesigned fourth edition. The Author: Michael King, noted New Zealand historian and writer by profession, is the author of this and many other landmark works including Moko, Te Ao Hurihuri and Tihei Mauri Ora. The late Maori scholar Dr Pei Te Hurihuri Jones remarked that King's work displays a fine touch and understanding of things Maori. Trade Paperback ...Show more

Saltwater in Her Hair - Stories of women in the New Zealand maritime industry by Dee Pigneguy

$25.00 NZD

Category: Nautical | Reading Level: near fine

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement with other early essays by Samuel Butler; R E Streatfield (ed.)

$35.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good

Colonial Experiences or incidents and reminiscences of thirty-four years in New Zealand by an old colonist by William Pratt

$25.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: good

The Golden Age of Josiah Clifton Firth by Mona Gordon

$30.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

Friends in Chains by Bob Henderson

$30.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good

A Colonist's Voyage to New Zealand by Alfred Fell

$20.00 NZD

Category: Shipping | Reading Level: very good