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ISBN / ISSN:
9780143006695
Penguin History of New Zealand Illustrated
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NZ$ 29.99 each
Hardback
Author:
Michael King (picture research & captions David Filer)
Published by:
Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
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The late Michael King's acclaimed Penguin History of New Zealand is the local publishing phenomenon of the early twentieth century. Total sales in paperback and hardback have recently reached a staggering 220,000. King's text has been hailed for its accessibility and for being positive and constructive in a time of uncertainty. This is an illustrated hardback edition in full colour in the same format as Gerard Hutchings' Natural World of New Zealand. To Michael King's wonderful text has been added nearly 300 illustrations researched by David Filer: photographs, early paintings, engravings, maps and ephemera.
First published 2003; this edition October 2007.
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9781877242168
Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi
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NZ$ 29.99 each
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Author:
Claudia Orange
Published by:
Bridget Williams Books
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Few subjects in recent years have created as much debate as the Treaty of Waitangi. Its history is a fascinating one, that embraces not only events of 1840 but also forces leading to the making of a treaty and the impacts, protests, and negotiations that followed for the next century and a half.
Claudia Orange offers here a straightforward account of a complex narrative. A wide range of illustrations brings the history to life: the different kinds of people who negotiated and signed the Treaty are vividly presented, the many periods of our past are portrayed; the context of this important document comes to life throughout the book.Perhaps the most significant feature of this book is the remarkable summary of the events of the 1980s and 1990s. In these years, the Waitangi Tribunal and iwi undertook massive research, to establish the validity of land claims; major settlements were made, and more claims are close to settlement.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869790233
Explorers, Whalers, and Tattooed Sailors: Adventurous Tales from Early New Zealand
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Author:
Gordon & Sarah Ell (eds)
Published by:
Random House New Zealand Ltd
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This collection of first-hand accounts, drawn from early writings and out-of-print books, lets the first Europeans to visit this country tell their own stories of exploration, risk and adventure. Abel Tasman and Joseph Banks write of their first encounters with the people of this new land, followed by missionaries, traders, whalers and sealers, regency bucks, gentlemen scientists and entrepreneurs keen to explore its possibilities. Told in their own words, these stories bring to life a young country yet to come under British rule. This collection, first published in 1992 by The Bush Press, brings back into print many hard to find and otherwise unpublished stories, packaged in an attractive gift edition with a modern look.
We have a number of similar titles in stock. To enquire, please phone us on 0064 3 364 2043, or email ubs@ubscan.co.nz your request.
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9781869507923
Leading the Way : How New Zealand Women Won the Vote
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Author:
Megan Hutching
Published by:
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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In 1893 New Zealand became the first country in the world to give women the vote, an achievement of which we are justly proud, but it wasn't easily achieved.
Respected historian Megan Hutching records and explains this momentous event, including profiles of the women who brought about the government's change of heart.
Their stories are an important part of our history and their courage, loyalty and fierce belief in democracy was remarkable. The story of how New Zealand women won the vote makes fascinating reading.
First published March 2010.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780143018674
The Penguin History of New Zealand
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NZ$ 35.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Michael King
Published by:
Penguin Books Ltd
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Shortlisted for the 2004 Montana NZ Book Awards, History section.
New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and the conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and more rapidly in New Zealand than anywhere else on Earth.
The Penguin History of New Zealand
, a new book for a new century, tells that story in all its colour and drama. The narrative that emerges is an inclusive one about men and women, Maori and Pakeha. It shows that British motives in colonising New Zealand were essentially humane: and that Maori, far from being victims of "fatal impact", coped heroically with colonisation and survived by selectively accepting and adapting what Western technology and culture had to offer.
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9780143204084
Bible and Treaty : Missionaries Among the Maori - a New Perspective
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Author:
Keith Newman
Published by:
Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
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Bible & Treaty: Missionaries among the Maori is a complex and colourful adventure of faith, bravery, perseverance and betrayal that seeks to recover lost connections in the story of modern New Zealand. It brings a fresh perspective to the missionary story, from the lead-up to Samuel Marsden's first sermon on New Zealand soil, and the intervening struggle for survival and understanding, to the dramatic events that unfolded around the Treaty of Waitangi and the disillusionment that led to the Land Wars in the 1860s. While some missionaries clearly failed to live up to their high calling, the majority committed their lives to Maori and were instrumental in spreading Christianity, brokering peace between warring tribes, and promoting literacy - publishing, for instance, the first indigenous-language Bible in the Southern Hemisphere. This highly readable account, from the author of Ratana Revisited: An Unfinished Legacy (2006) and Ratana: ...
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9781877514036
First to Care
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Author:
Graeme Hunt
Published by:
Libro International
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St John is integral to New Zealand society, touching many lives with its ambulance service, and drawing on the admirable spirit of thousands of Kiwi volunteers.
Graeme Hunt details a fascinating history from St John's origins in the Crusades, to its 1885 founding in New Zealand (in Christchurch), to the subsequent ups and downs, developments and challenges, of the modern organisation. Illustrated with more than 250 photos, memorabilia and other images, this 'warts and all' history traverses every region of New Zealand, with extensive appendices including St John's roll of honour.
DoP October 2009, Auckland
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781877372674
Passageways : The story of a New Zealand family
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Author:
Ann Thwaite
Published by:
University of Otago Press
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The author’s eight great grandparents all arrived in New Zealand between 1858 and 1868. Their family names were Harrop, Sales, Campbell, Brown, Valentine, Maxwell, Jefcoate and Oliver. She looks at their reasons for migration, how they fared once settled, and at their participation in gold-digging, farming, road-making, school-teaching and surveying. Both of her parents were graduates of Canterbury University and A.J. Harrop was a respected New Zealand historian.
Ann explains how she and her brother David came to be born in England and how early in World War II they were taken to their New Zealand relations for safety, returning to the UK five years later with a deep love for the country where David later became a farmer. This is an engaging portrait of a brilliant and unconventional New Zealand-British family.
First published April 2009.
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9780143203414
Wars Without End : The Land Wars in Nineteenth-century New Zealand (revised edition 2009)
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Author:
Danny Keenan
Published by:
Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
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From the earliest days of European settlement in New Zealand, argues historian Danny Keenan, Maori struggled to hold on to their land. Tensions began early, arising from disputed land sales. When open conflict between Maori and Imperial forces broke out in the 1840s and 1860s, the struggles intensified. For both sides, land was at the heart of the conflict. When the fighting was over, the 'wars' for land spilled into the courts. This is the first book to approach this subject from a Maori point of view, focusing on the Maori resolve to maintain possession of customary lands. Written by a senior Maori historian, Wars Without End describes the Maori reasons for fighting the 'Land Wars', placing these conflicts in the context of the Maori struggle to retain their sovereign estates. In this revised edition, the author has substantially reworked and expanded sections covering the Waikato wars.
First published December 2009; this revised ...
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9780958298803
A Journey in Search of Ancestors: The English Cotswolds to Wairarapa New Zealand
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Author:
Christopher Pope
Published by:
Fraser Books
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A dinner party conversation began Englishman Christopher Pope on a serious search for his ancestors. He began with the Cave family, relatives of his mother, largely because they were known to come from Nympsfield in the Cotswolds, an easy distance from his Plymouth home.
A Cave family puzzle led to the discovery of a New Zealand connection, which Christopher Pope and his wife Kathy explored on several visits to the other end of the world. In the Wairarapa, north of Wellington, New Zealand's capital, they discovered Augustus William Cave, an early and prominent settler with widespread farming, horse racing and community involvements.
Most intriguing about Augustus Cave, Christopher Pope's great grandfather, was his close connection with Masterton Maori and their Te Ore Ore marae. Over 100 years ago Te Ore Ore Maori presented Augustus Cave with a rare flaxen waistcoat; in 2008 Christopher Pope had the great honour of ...
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9781877333996
Always the Sound of the Sea : New Zealand Lighthouse Keepers' Lives
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Author:
Helen Beaglehole
Published by:
Craig Potton Publishing
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Lighthouses have a mystique, a romance, and an almost biblical significance about them. Elegant structures located on remote and exposed sites where the land is challenged by the sea, they beam light into the darkness and transform uncertainty into knowledge and safety. They are the subject of legends and yarns, shanties and poems, written and oral history around the world. New Zealand's lighthouses - their location, design, construction, operation and demanning - have been well documented in Helen Beaglehole's comprehensive history, Lighting the Coast. But the lives and work of the men and women behind the lights over the last 150 years deserves closer study. Why did they choose the life? What did the job entail from day to day and year to year? How did it change? How did they feel about their work? What were their fears, frustrations and rewards? In Always the Sound of the Sea, Helen Beaglehole again challenges the myths and the ...
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9781877333217
Angelina : From Stromboli to D'Urville Island
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Author:
Gerard Hindmarsh
Published by:
Craig Potton Publishing
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In 1906, at just 16 years of age, Angelina Criscillo left the tiny volcanic island of Stromboli, off Sicily, to travel to an even remoter island on the other side of the world.
From the age of eight she had been betrothed to her cousin, Vincenzo Moleta, who was now twice her age and taking her to a new life on D'Urville Island in New Zealand.Facing the fierce tides and weather of this wild island on the edge of Cook Strait, and having to cope with loneliness, the incessant toil of a pioneer farm, and the bitterness of a developing family feud, Angelina found solace in an unlikely friendship with a high-born Maori woman, Wetekia Ruruku Elkington, who lived near by. Together they shared their own struggles, their different cultures and lack of English language; a process that awakened Angelina to her own inner strengths. Angelina and Vincenzo finally left D'Urville Island in 1946 and both died within a few months of each other in ...
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9780473094454
Behind the Dispensing Screen
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Murray R Frost
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9780670074044
Beyond the Battlefield : New Zealand and Its Allies 1939-1945
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Author:
Gerald Hensley
Published by:
Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
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Finalist in the General Non-Fiction category NZ Post Book Awards 2010..
Beyond the Battlefield
by Gerald Hensley is the dramatic unknown story of New Zealand's involvement in World War II told for the first time here in an accessible, popular and enjoyable read. Savage, Nash, Fraser, Freyberg, Churchill, Roosevelt, Menzies, all great names from New Zealand and world history during the Second World War and all involved in the story of New Zealand's response to the global conflict and therefore the destiny of our nation.
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9781869791070
Big Ideas : 100 Wonders Of New Zealand Engineering
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NZ$ 45.00 each
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Author:
Matthew Wright
Published by:
Random House New Zealand Ltd
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Roads, bridges, dams, railway viaducts, tunnels - New Zealand is full of amazing feats of engineering. Our number-eight wire mentality has brought about some incredible engineering solutions to create structures and
systems to wonder at, from the Manapouri underground power station to Burt Munro's famous Indian motorcycle. Who designed these amazing things? How were they built? What innovative solutions did their engineers use to overcome problems of terrain, weather, materials and cost? From early Maori and European settlement through the boom days of the late 1900s into the Depression-era projects of the early twentieth century and on to the Think Big years. The book features 100 projects from around the country with informative text, fact boxes and historic photographs. This is a great book to dip into or read from cover to cover, showing the development of New Zealand's fascinating engineering heritage.
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9780473160159
Bucket Daze Herd testing in the 1950,s
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ed
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Technical Books Christchurch
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9781877378379
Call to Mission:the story of the mission sisters of Aotearoa/New Zealand
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Author:
Susan Smith
Published by:
David Ling Publishing Limited
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9781877448461
Field Punishment No. 1 : Archibald Baxter, Mark Briggs and New Zealand's Anti-militarist Tradition
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Author:
David Grant (illus Bob Kerr)
Published by:
Steele Roberts & Associates Ltd
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One of New Zealand's most extraordinary stories describes the courage of the conscientious objectors sent overseas during WW1 in a brutal attempt to force them to renounce their convictions and join the war effort. Despite torture and privation, Archie Baxter and Mark Briggs held out till the end, in one of the bravest displays of principle New Zealand has ever seen. They were this country's first successful dissenters, in defiance of a militaristic, neo-colonial government that feared non-conformity.
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9780473163815
From the Other End Of The World
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Author:
R K Dean
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GWW Services
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From the Other End of the World brings together experiences of immigrants to New Zealand from the UK who left the austerity of war conditions for a new life – or for what was intended to be a two year ‘OE’. All but one sailed between 1946 and 1956; the other sailed in 1965. The experiences range from romantic and humorous to the disappointing and deeply moving. Together they capture the activities, attitudes and expectations of the time as well as many interesting individual experiences – urban and rural. They are a testament to people who, by bringing much needed skills and experience, made a valuable but nowadays often forgotten contribution to New Zealand.
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9780143019633
Great Tales from NZ History
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Author:
Gordon MacLauchlan
Published by:
Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
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Who really did 'discover' New Zealand?
Why history has turned its back on the timid Abel Tasman
The burning of the sailing ship Boyd sets back European settlement by a decade
The enduring love affair between Eliza and Governor William Hobson
A surreal battle at Gate Pa in the Land Wars
Who were the real villains at Parihaka?
The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming
No rowdiness, no horseplay, when women vote for the first time
The Dog Tax - the last Maori armed uprising
The Great White Fleet- the American Navy visits in 1908
A future prime minister is jailed for 'agitating' in 1916
Kiwi lads die in the 'deep grey mud' at Passchendaele in 1917
The six o'clock swill down the pub and its 'disgusting culture'
The extraordinary feats of Jean Batten
John A Lee is fired from the Labour Party in 1940
Dozens die in a massacre at a prisoner of war camp for Japanese in the Wairarapa
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