Southern Spirit - The People and Places of Southland by Ian Dougherty

$20.00 NZD

Category: Regional | Reading Level: near fine

An illustrated book on the forms, flora, fauna, folk, fascinations, and fun of the Southland region of New Zealand.

Tamatea Dusky: The Remarkable Story of Fiordland's Dusky Sound by Peta Carey

$40.00 NZD

Category: Regional | Reading Level: near fine

Piha - A History in Images by Sandra Coney

$40.00 NZD

Category: Regional | Reading Level: very good

Rakiura - A History of Stewart Island New Zealand by Basil Hillyer Howard

$55.00 NZD

Category: Regional | Reading Level: very good

Southern People - A Dictionary of Otago Southland Biography by Jane Thomson (ed.)

$65.00 NZD

Category: Biography

Islands of the Gulf by Shirley Maddock

$10.00 NZD

Category: Regional | Reading Level: good

The all-time classic telling of life in the 1960s Hauraki Gulf In 1964 trailblazing author Shirley Maddock and photographer Don Whyte made an extraordinary voyage around the Hauraki Gulf, documenting its people and places. This was a watershed moment in New Zealand history where New Zealanders were give n the opportunity to see themselves, not just in the pages of this book but also on screen. It was a time when the way of life on the Gulf islands was a resourceful one, largely cut-off from the outside world. The best-selling and much loved Islands of the Gulf is a precious record of a bygone era, and an enchanting must-have for New Zealand households, baches and boats. Right on Auckland's doorstep, across 4000 square kilometres of ocean lie some 40 islands - more if you count the gannet perches. In the early 1960s Shirley Maddock joined Captain Fred Ladd, the pilot whose jaunty seaplanes served those isolated island communities, to film New Zealand's first (locally produced) documentary series, Islands of the Gulf, publishing a book of the same name. Maddock would visit everyone from farmers to gumdiggers, rangers to nurses, flying through the morning haze to the rugged battlements of Great Barrier and the dim, bluish mound of Little Barrier; over the top of North Head to the bone white tower of the light on Tiritiri Matangi; beyond to Kawau, east to Rakino and the little Noises; south-east to the long golden lengths of Waiheke and Ponui, and last to the clouded peaks of the Moehau Ranges; and nearer to the inner harbour islands of Motutapu and Motuihe, Brown's Island with its lopped-off crater and, at the entrance to the Gulf, the last great volcano, Rangitoto. This new 2017 edition is being published to coincide with the remake of Islands of the Gulf showing on TV ONE prime-time later this year with Shirley Maddock's daughter, actress and writer, Elisabeth Easther. ...Show more

Elsthorpe - The People, the Place by Elizabeth Macaulay; Yvonne Macaulay

$35.00 NZD

Category: Regional | Reading Level: near fine

From Survival to Revival: Auckland's Public Transport Since 1860 by Graham Bush

$40.00 NZD

Category: Regional | Reading Level: very good

This is the story of the evolution of Auckland's public transport since early colonial times which reveals much about the development of the city. From the pioneer entrepreneurs operating plodding horse-buses, through the dynamic construction of an outstanding electric tram system, a network of harbour ferry services and the brief interlude of trolley-buses to the electrification of suburban rail and the ubiquitous diesel bus, public transport has played a vital part in Auckland's living and lifestyle - this book tells it all. ...Show more

Rocking the Cradle - The story of the Society for the Preservation of the Kerikeri Stone Store area Inc. by Cathy Robinson

$14.00 NZD

Category: Regional | Reading Level: very good

Roskill - An Illustrated history of New Zealand's largest borough

$15.00 NZD

Category: Regional | Reading Level: very good

The Story of Hawke's Bay by A H Reed

$55.00 NZD

Category: Regional | Reading Level: very good

Ashburton New Zealand - Its Pioneers and Its History 1853-1939 by John Brown

$50.00 NZD

Category: Regional | Reading Level: good