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Agency of Hope: The story of the Auckland City Mission 1920-2020 by Peter Lineham
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
A CENTURY OF AUCKLANDERS HELPING AUCKLANDERS. This lively history by well-known historian Peter Lineham features over 100 photographs and takes readers inside a remarkable organisation working at the front lines of a society in which poverty has become entrenched. For 100 years the Auckland City Mission ...Show more
100 Days That Mapped a Nation by Graeme Lay
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: new
October 2019 marks the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook’s first landfall in New Zealand. One Hundred Days that Mapped a Nation marks this historic occasion by looking at Cook’s intrepid journeys to New Zealand and the Pacific that were unprecedented for the time and had such far-reaching conseque ...Show more
Legends of Rotorua: and the Hot Lakes by Reed Aw
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
First published in 1958, this is the classic collection of myths relating to that cradle of Maori culture, Rotorua - with relevance across New Zealand Rotorua is one of New Zealand's most visited cities. It is impossible to avoid the area's Maori history and, in this book, it is easy to learn about the ...Show more
Ake Ake Kia Kaha E! Forever Brave!: B Company 28th Maori Battalion 1939-1945 by Wira Gardiner
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
A truly unique insight into the impact the Second World War had on the iwi of the central North Island and Bay of Plenty districts (including Te Arawa, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Tuhoe, Whanau-a-Apanui, Ngati Maru and Ngati Paoa) focusing on the region's war effort not only overseas, but also at home and in gove ...Show more
Waitangi: A Living Treaty by Matthew Wright
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Acclaimed historian Matthew Wright explores the evolution of New Zealand's most historically significant document, the Treaty of Waitangi, from its origins to its place in the present day. From the early cultural collisions between Maori and Pakeha that led to this landmark agreement, to the many reinte ...Show more
Dear Oliver by Peter Wells
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
When writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mother's effects, he realised that he had the means of retracing the history of a not-untypical family swept out to New Zealand during the great nineteenth-century human diaspora from Britain. His family experience ...Show more
Victory at Gate Pa by Buddy Makaere
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
The Battle of Pukehinahina-Gate Pa was a defining moment in New Zealand history. It brought together forces representing the British Empire's military machine, political manoeuvering and settler land hunger, Maori notions of sovereignty and self-determination, Christian ideals, and blood and death on a ...Show more
The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill, in which Sam Neill retraces Cook's footsteps, in the 250th anniversary year of Cook's first voyage. Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768 - 250 years ago. These vast waters, ...Show more
Tatau: A History of Samoan Tattooing by Sean Mallon; Sebastien Galliot
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
The Sāmoan Islands are virtually unique in that tattooing has been continuously practised with indigenous techniques: the design of the full male tattoo, the pe'a, has evolved in subtle ways since the nineteenth century, but remains as elaborate, meaningful and powerful as it ever was. This richly illus ...Show more
Armistice Day: The New Zealand Story by Philippa Werry
$24.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
At the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month each year New Zealanders remember the end of the First World War. Armistice Day. Kiwi soldiers returned home to a terrible influenza epidemic, as the population grieved for the loss of life. Memorials were erected and families sought to ret ...Show more
Haunted New Zealand Road Trip by Mark Wallbank
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
In search of 'ghosts on the road', Mark Wallbank, founder of Haunted Auckland, goes roadtrippin' with his ghost hunting gadgets, cameras and other recording equipment to investigate paranormal legends and Auckland's allegedly haunted locations. Join Mark as he sets out with his team to document wanderin ...Show more
A Short History of the New Zealand Wars by Gordon McLauchlan
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Following the ongoing success of A Short History of New Zealand, Great Tales of New Zealand History and Great Tales of Rural New Zealand - all reprinted and still going strong - Gordon McLauchlan has turned his masterful storytelling skills to one of the most important periods in this country's history. ...Show more