New Zealand Nurses - Caring for Our People 1880-1950 by Pamela Wood
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Pamela Wood is a retired academic, registered nurse and independent historian. She taught in undergraduate and postgraduate nursing programmes and postgraduate health programmes for 30 years and is the author of Dirt: Filth and decay in a New World Arcadia.
Fragments from a Contested Past (BWB Texts) by Joanna Kidman, Vincent O'Malley, Liana MacDonald, Tom Roa and Keziah Wallis
17.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
‘What a nation or society chooses to remember and forget speaks to its contemporary priorities and sense of identity. Understanding how that process works enables us to better imagine a future with a different, or wider, set of priorities.’ History has rarely felt more topical or relevant as, all across ...Show more
Hawkes Bay Farmers Transport Ltd Trucks and Truckers by Gavin M Abbot
67.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Remembering Kaikoura Earthquake by Andrew Spencer
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
On reflection - 5 years on with lift out quotes from a range of people that were there to experience the damage first hand. Before and after quake images plus hero profiles and hardships. Includes - Seddon, Hanmer, Culverton and other wider rural areas
Te Kupenga: 101 Stories of Aotearoa from the Turnbull by Michael Keith; Chris Szekely
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Published to mark 100 years since the establishment of the famous Alexander Turnbull Library, one of New Zealand's great storehouses, this energetic, comprehensive book approaches the history of Aotearoa New Zealand through 101 remarkable objects. Each tells a story, be it of discovery, courage, disposs ...Show more
Hei Taonga Ma Nga Uri Whakatipu: Treasures for the Rising Generation: The Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919-1923 by Wayne Ngata & Anne Salmond
75.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
From 1919 to 1923, at Sir Apirana Ngata's initiative, a team from the Dominion Museum travelled to tribal areas across Te Ika-a-Māui/the North Island to record tikanga Māori (ancestral practices) that Ngata feared might be disappearing. These ethnographic expeditions, the first in the world to be inspi ...Show more
Ron Smith Ltd & Direct Transport Trucks and Truckers by Gavin M Abbot
57.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
True Tales of East of the Waihou - Matatoki to Hikutaia
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
More True Tales of Thames
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
'More True Tales of Thames' is a collection of true stories brought together from many contributors with a link to this area. It is a fascinating collection of tales, history and photographs which reflect and provide a valuable record of the 'way we were and are' in this special part of the Coromandel ...Show more
Searching For Charlie - In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham VC & Bar by Tom Scott
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham is the only combat soldier ever to win the Victoria Cross twice. His acts of bravery in World War II meant he probably deserved six more. The mystery of how a reserved, modest, slightly built farm valuer from New Zealand, could be so ferocious and fearless in battle has int ...Show more
Rush to Riches: Kauri and Gold (The New Zealand Series) by Gordon Ell
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: The New Zealand Series
Colonising New Zealand was as much of a search for wealth as an imperial venture. The rush to exploit the country's gold and kauri is a story of innovation and determination, as well as suspicion and thuggery. The rushes of both industries drew Maori and British, and also Americans, Australians, Dalmati ...Show more