Many voices in mission : 25 years of the Salvation Army in NZ,Fiji and Tonga 1983-2008 by Various
18.99 NZD
23.00 (17% off)
Category: NZ History
DoP 2009, New Zealand A-4 / 101pp Softcover A fascinating insight into 25 years of Salvation Army ministry. A valuable and timely update to the Army's centennial volume 'Fight the Good Fight'. This volume contains a colourful range of personal voices and perspectives on Salvation Army life and servic ...Show more
The Pandora Survey - The completion of the 1848-1856 Great Survey of New Zealand by HMS Pandora together with an account of its genesis and initial phase by Brian Byrne
137.99 NZD
165.00 (16% off)
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
The 1848-1856 Great Survey of New Zealand, carried out initially by Captain John Stokes in HMS Acheron between 1848-51 and completed by Commander Byron Drury in HMS Pandora between 1851-56, yielded "one of the most magnificent of the many productions of the English Navy". An opinion first expressed in 1 ...Show more
With a view to the Future by anon
69.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Very Good
This fascinating, large-format book celebrates the recent revamping of the Auckland Museum by looking back into the past of the fifty or so donors who have contributed to its Stage II Grand Atruim development, which includes the magnificent copper dome with its commemorative windows. In offering the rea ...Show more
Anders & Jacobine Hagenson : Scandinavian Pioneers in NZ by Peter Ware
75.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Our St Clair: A Resident's History by Barbara A Newton
72.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
St Clair resident Barbara Newton weaves together the strands f St Clair's fascinating history including stories of its early families and their grand homes, the hard-working nurserymen and Chinese gardeners, the numerous clubs, industries, businesses and early transport, along with various local sagas - ...Show more
Behind the Dispensing Screen by Frost, Murray R.
75.00 NZD
92.00 (18% off)
Category: NZ History
The life and times of pharmacists in pre-1930 New Zealand, giving biographical life histories and information on their shops, also collectibles and antique bottles.
No Fear of Rusting by Philip Andrews
48.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
A head buried in his garden, his mission station plundered and burnt, warfare and acnnibalism whithin his own district: these were among the varied experiences of missionary Thomas Chapman (1792-1876) who came to New Zealand as a cathechist for the Church Missionary Society in 1830, and spent over thirt ...Show more
The Bridge to Nowhere - The Ill-Fated Mangapurua Settlement by Arthur P Bates
87.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: good-very good
The New Oxford History of New Zealand by Byrnes, Giselle, editor
99.99 NZD
165.00 (39% off)
Category: NZ History
The most up-to-date multi-authored revisionist history of Aotearoa, New Zealand. This book tests the idea that New Zealand istory can be explained as a quest for 'national identity' and considers whether narratives that rely on the 'colony-to-nation' storyline are still relevant today. Featuring previou ...Show more
Nga Morehu - The Survivors - The Life Histories of Eight Maori Women by Judith Binney; Gillian Chaplin
75.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Bible and Treaty: Missionaries Among the Maori - a New Perspective by Keith Newman
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Very Good
Bible & Treaty: Missionaries among the Maori is a complex and colourful adventure of faith, bravery, perseverance and betrayal that seeks to recover lost connections in the story of modern New Zealand. It brings a fresh perspective to the missionary story, from the lead-up to Samuel Marsden's first ...Show more
Home - Civilian New Zealanders Remember the Second World War by Alison Parr
52.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
While their loved ones left to serve overseas, most New Zealanders spent the Second World War at home. This book tells the stories of those who stayed behind. Based on frank, in-depth interviews, Home reveals the reality of civilian wartime life in New Zealand during the watershed years from 1939 to 194 ...Show more