State Experiments in Australia & New Zealand Volume I and Volume II by W Pember Reeves
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Of Toffs and Toilers - From Cornwall to New Zealand - Fragments of the Past by Geoffrey Charles Buckley
$25.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Tiny Statements - A Social History of Aotearoa New Zealand in Badges by Claire Regnault; Stephanie Gibson
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | 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
Reasons for Promoting the Cultivation of New Zealand Flax by F Dillon Bell; Frederick Young
$40.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
Into the 21st Century 1947-2005 by John Parker
$8.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-fiction | Series: Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Reviews the internal strife and restructuring, highlights and horrors that helped to create modern New Zealand, from the era of post-war growth, through the anti-nuclear stand and Bastion Point to the rise of Maori sovereignty and the plans for a new millennium. The text is written to entertain as well ...Show more
The Dark Island - Leprosy in New Zealand and the Quail Island Colony by Benjamin Kingsbury
$16.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
From 1906 to 1925 Quail Island was the site of New Zealands leprosy colony. The colony began by accident, as it were, after the discovery of a leprosy sufferer in Christchurch. As further patients arrived from across the country, it grew into a controversial and troubled institution an embarrassment to ...Show more
New Zealand Labour's Pionering Days - The history of the Labour Movement in New Zealand from 1840-1894 by J D Salmond
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Maori Wars - The British Army in New Zealand 1840-1872 by Tom Gibson
$65.00 NZD
Category: Maori | Reading Level: very good
The Brown Frontier - New Zealand Historical Stories and Studies by C W Vennell
$15.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Stepping Back - Exploring South Island History O/P by Mark Pickering
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Stepping Back is a book for people who love exploring. It is a guide to the gems of South Island history, designed to help us fossick in our past without getting overwhelmed by it. It's not about museum history, but what's out there in the streets, paddocks and back- country of New Zealand. Behind every ...Show more
Tracking Captain Thomas - A journey in search of the unacknowledged founder of Canterbury by Colin Amodeo
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
The continuing myth that Canterbury was born in December 1850 with the arrival of the First Four Ships has to be dispelled. Canterbury did not, like the legendary Athena, spring 'fully-armed from the head of Zeus' (in this case, John Robert Godley) as succeeding generations after 1851 have been led to b ...Show more
Coaching Yesterday by Philip Temple
$12.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: New Zealand Yesterday | Reading Level: very good