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A Stake in the Country: Assid Abraham Corban and His Family, 1892-2002 by Dick Scott
69.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Corban has become a household name in New Zealand since the start of the twentieth century. This book looks at the family's years of winemaking and shows how, against unbeleivable odds, a new industry was born. But in helping to change the taste of nation a migrant family also changed itself. That proce ...Show more
Ask That Mountain - The Story of Parihaka by Dick Scott
39.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Reading Level: near fine
Journalist and historian Dick Scott broke new ground with Ask That Mountain. The book draws on official papers, settler manuscripts and oral histories to give the first complete account of what took place at Parihaka, the small settlement at the foot of Mount Taranaki where the chiefs Te Whiti and Tohu ...Show more
Ask That Mountain: The Story of Parihaka by Dick Scott
44.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books
Second hand. Parihaka has become a byword for Maori refusal to yield land, culture and dignity to New Zealand's colonial government. Well after the end of the New Zealand Wars, the people of this small settlement at the foot of Mt Taranaki held out against the encroachments of Pakeha settlers in a stru ...Show more
Dick Scott: A Radical Writer's Life by Dick Scott
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Dick Scott, one of New Zealand
Pioneers of New Zealand Wine by Dick Scott
29.95 NZD
Category: Wine, Beer and Spirits | Reading Level: very good
This is a book about the people who made the wine industry of New Zealand. They came from every wine country in Europe, stubborn, dedicated men, slightly odd in the eyes of their neighbours, who set themselves to clothe despised corners of the land in vines. Pioneers of New Zealand Wine is a beautifully ...Show more
Seven Lives on Salt River by Dick Scott
39.99 NZD
Category: History
‘There are marvellous insights into people … it is an extraordinary book.’— David Lange First published in 1987 and here in its third edition, Seven Lives on Salt River is a local history that has transcended its boundaries along the northern Kaipara Harbour around Pahi to be a universal story of how Eu ...Show more
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