The Years Before Waitangi: a Story of Early Maori European Contact in New Zealand by Patricia Bawden
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: good
In The Years Before Waitangi the author brings together material from letters, journals and books written by early European visitors to these shores - detailed accounts of what those people saw and experienced - to give the reader a glimpse of the culture and life-style of Maori and Europeans in New Zea ...Show more
Kiwi School Days - Interviews and Reflections 1928-1999 Volume One Revised Edition by Ross Sutton
36.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Okay Boomer: New Zealand in the Swinging Sixties by Ian Chapman
19.99 NZD
39.99 (50% off)
Category: NZ History
OK Boomer! New Zealand in the Swinging Sixties looks at Politics, Sport, Wining & Dining, fashion, night life and everything 60s in a highly illustrated format. Based on the hugely successful Weekly News titles published by Moa back in the early 90's. This title will take us on a nostalgic trip down ...Show more
Tamatea Dusky: The Remarkable Story of Fiordland's Dusky Sound by Peta Carey
69.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
The remarkable story of conservation and history in Fiordland's Tamatea/Dusky Sound, by Peta Carey. With a fascinating history, both Maori and European, it is the place where Captain Cook arrived in 1773, and where ground-breaking conservation began in New Zealand over 120 years ago.
The Forgotten Wars: Why the Musket Wars Matter Today by Ron Crosby
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Ron Crosby brilliantly rewrites his seminal The Musket Wars on a thematic basis, simplifying it to a concise work full of maps and illustrations for the general reader. Distinguished author Ron Crosby outlines why the Musket Wars were a crucial phase of New Zealand history and should be taught today. ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of James Busby - His Majesty's British Resident in New Zealand by Paul Moon
43.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
One of the British Empire's most troubling colonial exports in the 19th-century, James Busby is known as the father of the Australian wine industry, the author of New Zealand's Declaration of Independence and a central figure in the early history of independent New Zealand as its British Resident from 1 ...Show more
Living On Shaky Ground - The science and story behind New Zealand’s earthquakes by Matthew Wright
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
What makes our isles so shaky? Why was Christchurch not the first of our big quakes? Any why won’t it be our last? This book investigates our turbulent tectonics. It tells us how earthquakes are measured and described, and how scientists predict future shakes. It details New Zealand’s lesser-known quake ...Show more
Kiwi School Days Volume 3 - Interviews and Memoirs 1927-2019 A multi-cultural perspective by Ross Sutton
36.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
The Story of a Treaty by Claudia Orange
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Second-had book in good condition. The Treaty of Waitangi is a central document in New Zealand history. In this lively account, Claudia Orange tells the story of the Treaty from its signing in 1840 through the debates and struggles of the nineteenth century to the gathering political momentum of the la ...Show more
100 Days That Mapped a Nation by Graeme Lay
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
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
Cook Voyages Encounters by Janet Davidson
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
Almost 250 years after James Cook first sighted Aotearoa in October 1769, world-wide interest in all aspects of his exploration of the Pacific endures. In this handsome book, widely respected Pacific scholar Janet Davidson details the collection of Maori, Pacific and Native American objects associated w ...Show more