Timber Cruising and Other Forestry Stories by Denis Harris
38.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
How many New Zealanders of today know about the Timber Cruisers who helped to convert our landscape for industry and urbinisation? During two reunions of indigenous timber cruisers, Bob Grubner invited contributions of stories from those days.
First to Care: 125 Years of the Order of St John in New Zealand, 1885-2010 by Graeme Hunt
19.99 NZD
60.00 (66% off)
Category: NZ History
First to Care is the most comprehensive history written of the Order of St John in New Zealand. Told in a readable style with more than 250 photos and illustrations, First to Care unearths new information from the founding of the St John Ambulance Association in 1885 through to todayÃÂÃÂÃÂâà...Show more
Freed to Care:100 years of the New Zealand Nurses' Association by Mary Ellen O'Conner
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Secondhand. This 100-year history of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation reflects its social, economic and political background, and profiles individuals to highlight the many facets of nursing in New Zealand.
Through the Eyes of a Miner: The Photography of Joseph Divis by Simon Nathan
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Miner Joseph Divis, born in Bohemia, photographed life in mining towns Blackball, Waiuta and Waihi where he worked between 1909 and 1935. Although an outsider, Divis loved this country. When he died in 1967 he was one of the last inhabitants in the ghost town of Waiuta, site of one of NZ’s richest gold- ...Show more
No Job Too Big: A History of Fletcher Construction. Volume I, 1909-40 by Jack Smith
44.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
The first of three volumes on an outstanding New Zealand company, this book covers the period 1909-40 and focuses on the work for which Fletcher Construction Co Ltd, with its tower cranes constructing buildings and its bulldozers on civil engineering projects all around the country, is widely known and ...Show more
Connecting the Country: Development of New Zealand's National Grid 1886-2007 by Helen Reilly
90.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
The National Grid is a vital part of New Zealand's infrastructure. Without Transpower's substations, transmission equipment, control centres and the people who manage them, the country could not function in the 21st century. 'Connecting the Country' tells the story of the early engineers, surveyors, lin ...Show more
Field Punishment No. 1: Archibald Baxter, Mark Briggs and New Zealand's Anti-militarist Tradition by David Grant
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
One of New Zealand's most extraordinary stories describes the courage of the conscientious objectors sent overseas during WW1 in a brutal attempt to force them to renounce their convictions and join the war effort. Despite torture and privation, Archie Baxter and Mark Briggs held out till the end, in on ...Show more
Song of a Young Country by Neil Colquhoun (editor)
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: 1st
An illustrated New Zealand history in the words and music of songs. This is a totally revised and enlarged edition of a classic of NZ publishing; the 1972 edition has been out of print for decades. This is rich, poetic Kiwi cultural treasure - the songs of the pioneers: whalers, sealers, gumdiggers, gol ...Show more
The First Colonist: Samuel Deighton, 1821-1900 by Michael Butler
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
A fascinating insight into early New Zealand history. Draws on letters between Deighton and government officials: Deighton, from Cambridge, England, was the first ashore from the first ships which landed off Petone in Wellington Harbour in 1840; he held land orders from the New Zealand Company and fough ...Show more
War and Class: the Diary of Jack McCullough by Melanie Nolan
44.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Jack McCullough's diary, begun 100 years ago in 1908, records a period in New Zealand society beset with economic turmoil and war. McCullough was a political reformer - a pragmatic idealist who worked tirelessly to better the lives of his fellow citizens through protest, union and Arbitration Court acti ...Show more
Call to Mission:the story of the mission sisters of Aotearoa/New Zealand by Susan Smith
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
The first four Mission Sisters journeyed from France to Napier, New Zealand, in 1865. One hundred years later, there were more than three hundred sisters living and working in New Zealand and elsewhere. Sadly, national and diocesan church histories in New Zealand tend to overlook the important contrib ...Show more
Fletchers: A Centennial History of Fletcher Building by Paul Goldsmith
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Most of New Zealand's great business icons of the twentieth century have withered, disappeared or been swallowed by other firms. But a century after James Fletcher began his work in Dunedin, in 1909, Fletcher Building continues to perform as one of New Zealand's largest and most trusted companies, with ...Show more