Shear History : 50 Years of Golden Shears in New Zealand by Doug Laing
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
The detailed and colourful story of five decades of the world's premier shearing event. For each decade there is an overview of the state of the sheep industry and developments on and off the farm coupled with year-by-year highlights of each Golden Shears - the personalities, the records, the changing n ...Show more
Historical and Political Dictionary of New Zealand by Keith Jackson
69.95 NZD
Category: NZ History
This new, retitled and expanded New Zealand edition is a substantially revised edition of the Historical Dictionary of New Zealand published in the United States in 2005. It describes the many changes of the past decade while building on the solid foundations of the earlier editions that examined the co ...Show more
Women and Their Words: Notable Pioneers in New Zealand Journalism by Janet McCallum
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Very Good
The first women who played their parts in New Zealand journalism were truly pioneering. Most parts of the publishing process were completely off-limits to women until the second half of the 20th century. Even journalism - on newspapers and in magazines - was strictly proscribed. In this survey of women ...Show more
A Journey in Search of Ancestors: the English Cotswolds to the Wairarapa in New Zealand by Christopher Pope
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
A dinner party conversation began Englishman Christopher Pope on a serious search for his ancestors. He began with the Cave family, relatives of his mother, largely because they were known to come from Nympsfield in the Cotswolds, an easy distance from his Plymouth home. A Cave family puzzle led to the ...Show more
Travels of Hochstetter and Haast in New Zealand 1858-1860 by Mike Johnston; Sascha Nolden
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
The bright glare of our blazing fire illuminated the gigantic trunks of the majestic rimu and rata trees, the moonlight with magic splendour poured through their lofty crowns, and the blustering wind moaned in the tree-tops. I do not recollect a more romantic scene of a night in the bush, during all my ...Show more
The Amazing World of James Hector by Simon Nathan (ed)
26.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
James Hector was astounding. Scottish-born and trained as a surgeon, at 23 he took part in a daring British expedition to survey western Canada, and was given up for dead at a place still known - on account of his accident - as Kicking Horse Pass. Fortunately, he survived. Then head-hunted to carry out ...Show more
Mr & Mrs U: The Story of a High Country Marriage in Early Canterbury by Audrey Adams
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Very Good
REPRINTED 2009 Through their letters to his native Shropshire in England between 1865 and 1902 Everard Upton and his wife, Eunice Adams, speak to us of the tribulations, but also of the pleasures, of life on remote country sheep stations in the early years of the European settlement of Canterbury. Thes ...Show more
Dear Dot: A Personal History of Young New Zealanders, 1886-1936 by Keith Douglas Scott
51.99 NZD
59.99 (13% off)
Category: NZ History
This is the story of the newspaper correspondence column Dot's Little Folk and those who wrote to it. Little Folk was the first correspondence column for children in a New Zealand newspaper. It became the largest feature column of any kind in the history of New Zealand journalism, and it gave rise to a ...Show more
New Zealand's Top 100 History-Makers by Joseph Romanos
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
The definitive New Zealand's Top 100 History-Makers, which profiles the people who have shaped New Zealand, is staggering in its scope.The 100 people profiled by author Joseph Romanos range from politicians and inventors to musicians and sports stars: New Zealand's icons, including Edmund Hillary, Kate ...Show more
Lines in the Water: A History of Greenshell Mussel Farming in New Zealand by Carol Dawber
70.00 NZD
79.95 (12% off)
Category: NZ History
In 1969 a group of Nelson fishermen towed the first mussel raft into the Marlborough Sounds and anchored it in the Kenepuru. Within a decade, cultivated mussels were on the menu, the first exports had been shipped and New Zealand's first purpose-built mussel provessing factory was on the drawing board. ...Show more
Thomas Brunner: His Life and Great Journeys by Emily Host
59.95 NZD
Category: NZ History
First published December 2006.
The General Grant's Gold: Shipwreck and Greed in the Southern Ocean by Madelene Ferguson Allen
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
The wreck in 1866 of the General Grant in the desolate sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands is one of the world's great nautical mysteries, a story that still tantalises and thrills. When the ship was crushed in a cave beneath a sheer cliff face, a few crew members and a handful of passengers managed to escap ...Show more