The Right Honourable Sir Francis H D Bell - His Life and Times by William Downie Stewart

$55.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

The Early Journals of Henry Williams Senior Missionary in New Zealand of the Church Missionary Society 1826-40 by Lawrence M. Rogers (ed.)

$110.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good

Valerie: The Autobiography by Phil Gifford

$14.00 NZD

Category: Biography

Valerie Adams is without question the greatest field athlete New Zealand has ever produced - and, if you're looking for confirmation of that fact, you need only scan the giant shot putter's astonishing list of achievements: reigning Olympic champion, reigning world champion and reigning Commonwealth Gam es champion. Valerie Adams' story, though, does not just revolve around all the success she has achieved over the past eight or ten years. Her story is one of struggle, dedication and an incredible single-mindedness - all life experiences which have seen her become one of the great sporting champions. On top of that, she has become one of this country's great role models, most especially for young Pacific Islanders. In her book the traditionally media-shy Adams will talk about her humble upbringings, her incredibly successful partnership with coach Kirsten Hellier and, for the first time, shed light on the dramatic disintegration of that partnership in 2010. But perhaps most importantly, she will talk about what it's like to achieve at the very highest level ...and to regularly look out from the centre of the sporting dais. ...Show more

A Controversial Churchman: Essays on George Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand and Lichfield, and Sarah Selwyn

$30.00 NZD

Category: Biography

New Zealand’s frst Anglican bishop, George Selwyn, was a towering fgure in the young colony. Denounced as a ‘turbulent priest’ for speaking out against Crown practices that dispossessed Máori, he brought a vigorous approach to episcopal leadership. His wife Sarah Selwyn supported all her husband’s activ ities, in a life characterised as one of ‘hardship and anxiety’. She expressed independently her sense of outrage over the Waitara dispute. Selwyn promoted participatory church government, founded the innovative Melanesian Mission, and developed a distinctive style of colonial church architecture. More contro-versially, he battled with the Church Missionary Society, and was caught up in the bitter maelstrom of settler and Máori politics. His personal links with colonial and ecclesiastical networks gave him access to the heart of empire. These essays offer new insights into Selwyn’s role in developing pan-Anglicanism,strengthening links between the Church of England and the Episcopal and Anglican Churches in North America, and his time as Bishop of Lichfeld (1868–78). His place in Treaty history, as a political commentator and a valuable source of historical information,is recognised. George Selwyn left a large imprint on New Zealand church and society. This collection both honours and critiques a controversial bishop. ...Show more

Ready Money: The Life of William Robinson of Hill River, South Australia, and Cheviot Hills, North Canterbury by Margaret Wigley

$40.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

WILLIAM ROBINSON, known as 'Ready Money' Robinson because he usually paid in cash, developed a great estate at Cheviot in North Canterbury in the nineteenth century. Born in Lancashire, the son of a farm bailiff, he first emigrated to South Australia, where he began to amass assets as an overlander, dro ving stock across state lines. He established an impressive estate at Hill River but moved to New Zealand in 1856, drawn by the more temperate climate. Robinson was a man of energy and vision. At Cheviot Hills he created another vast estate renowned for its excellent pasture and stock, its fine tree plantings and welldesigned gardens. He and his wife, Eliza, had five daughters and a son, who died in South Australia at the age of two. In 1866 they built a great house, designed by Robert Speechly, who was supervising the building of Christchurch Cathedral. Twenty years later it was more than doubled in size and became known as the Mansion House. Robinson had an important role in the building of roads and bridges, the first telegraph in North Canterbury, and an ambitious slipway as a 'port' on an inhospitable coast. He also spent 20 years in the Upper House of the Legislative Council.After his death, his estate became the county of Cheviot, with today's town of Cheviot at its centre. First published November 2006. ...Show more

Richard Henry of Resolution Island by Suzanne Hill; John Hill

$110.00 NZD

Category: Biography

Sailing to Bohemia: A Life of the Honourable William Swainson by John Stacpoole

$40.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: new

A biography of William Swainson, Attorney-General (1841-56), member of the Executive and Legislative Councils, and writer. Swainson was to write in his own book, 'New Zealand and its Colonization', he conceived the British Government's principal object in establishing its authority to be the promotion o f the civilisation and development of the Maori people. ...Show more

The Collector. Andreas Reischek - A Biography by Michael King

$25.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

The Chapman Legal Family by Peter Spiller

$20.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

Major Thomas Bunbury: Envoy Extraordinary, New Zealand's Soldier-Treatymaker by Alan Lambourn

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Edward Gibbon Wakefield in New Zealand - His Political Career 1853-4 by Peter Stuart

$12.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

The Mediator: A Life of Richard Taylor 1805 -1873 by J M R Owens

$20.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

Richard Taylor described himself as a man 'between two fires'. Born in Yorkshire in 1805, he arrived as a missionary in the Bay of Islands in 1939 with his two eldest sons and was soon joined by his wife Caroline and their three younger children. His extensive records, including a daily journal spanni ng 48 years, have provided a rich source for historians as well as a remarkable day-by-day account of one man's life. the Mediator tells the story of a man who came expevting 'savages' and who learned to reject the term, who encouraged the Maori in the Wanganui area when they set up their own magistrates, and when they traded, grew crops of built flour mills. He maintained his interests in ethnography, botany, zoology and geology, and was an indefatigable writer of books and articles on scientific subjects. ...Show more