Sunday Best: How Religion Shaped New Zealand and How New Zealand Shaped Religion by Peter Lineham
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
The early arrival of the missionaries in Aotearoa set the scene for a new 'moral colony' that would be founded on religious precepts and modern Christian beliefs. It did not take long for a combination of circumstances to confound the aspirations of the Church Missionary Society, the Church in Rome and ...Show more
Fearless: The Extraordinary Untold Story of New Zealand's Great War Airmen by Adam Claasen
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
More than 1000 New Zealanders served in the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Air Force. Several, including Sir Keith Park, later became senior air commanders of the Second World War. Among them were leading air aces, including Keith Caldwell, Ronald Bannerman and the famous tenn ...Show more
A Short History of the New Zealand Wars by Gordon McLauchlan
29.99 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
How to Mend a Kea by Janet Hunt
27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Nature
The little kaka that lost its way; the kereru with the broken wing; the tuatara that went floppy; the whio that couldn’t fly, the kea with the broken foot... All these stories and more from Wildbase, the remarkable New Zealand native animal veterinary hospital, told by expert natural history writer Jan ...Show more
The Quiet Forest The Case Against Aerial 1080 by Fiona M F McQueen
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
This informative and well-researched book by Fiona McQueen drives a hole through the New Zealand Department of Conservation's mantra that the deadly and indiscriminate 1080 poison is necessary to protect native birds and other fauna. Anyone who genuinely cares about New Zealand's wonderful environment c ...Show more
Goodbye Maoriland by Bourke Chris
59.99 NZD
Category: Maori History | Reading Level: very good
Be it `Tipperary' or `Pokarekare', the morning reveille or the bugle's last post, concert parties at the front or patriotic songs at home, music was central to New Zealand's experience of the First World War. In Good-Bye Maoriland, the acclaimed author of Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular ...Show more
Out of the Ocean, Into the Fire - History in the rocks, fossils and landforms of Auckland, Northland and Coromandel by Bruce W. Hayward
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
For decades teachers, biologists, geographers and interested members of the public have asked for an up-to-date account of how Northland, Auckland and the Coromandel Peninsula and their landforms were formed. Here, for the first time, is an accessible account designed to be of interest to all levels of ...Show more
The Growth of New Zealand Towns
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
Researcher Hugh Dickey recently completed a book on The Growth of New Zealand Towns. He sees a need for a revised definition of just what urban means in a New Zealand context, based on the urban functions a town provides. But before detailed research is done into the urban functions of each small to med ...Show more
Life on Muzzle: Three Generations on New Zealand's Most Remote Station by Fiona Redfern
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
Remote Muzzle Station in southern Marlborough has captured the hearts and minds of generations, including Fiona Redfern and her parents before her. Fiona grew up and thrived in the splendid isolation, and wouldn't have it any other way. Now Fiona and her husband Guy are running the station and raising t ...Show more
Bird Words by Elisabeth Easther
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Nature
A lively anthology of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, celebrating the birds of Aotearoa.On the skylinea hawklanguidly typinga hunting poemwith its wings.- Hone TuwhareNew Zealand birds have inspired mythology, song, whimsical stories, detailed observation, humour and poetry. There are tales of shooting ...Show more
Emergency Response by Dave Greenberg
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Stories from a life spent in the emergency services - true tales of rescue and adventure. When Dave Greenberg was just 13 years old, he saved a life for the first time, using CPR. He already knew that he wanted to spend his life helping others in times of crisis, and that harrowing event on a city foot ...Show more
Today in New Zealand History by Neill Atkinson
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Dates matter, and they are often a starting point for our engagement with history. For most New Zealanders, days like 6 February or 25 April are laden with significance. They are recognised as markers of important moments in our past; they inspire pride, connection, reflection, or perhaps controversy. S ...Show more