A Portrait of Porirua: The Creation of a Planned City by Neil Penman
81.99 NZD
Category: Rotorua Books
Our story follows the coming of man, the settlement of the district, the Porirua Hospital and the U.S. Marine deployment in the district up until city status was achieved in 1965. The book's story conveys Porirua's journey with text and photographs up to the city's golden jubilee celebrations in October ...Show more
Jackson's Bay: A Centennial History by Irvine Roxburgh
84.99 NZD
Category: Rotorua Books | Reading Level: very good
Riccarton and the Deans Family: History and Heritage by Joanna Orwin
49.99 NZD
Category: Rotorua Books | Reading Level: Near Fine
The story of Riccarton Bush and its association with the Deans family encapsulates the natural and social history of Canterbury. This story began several thousand years ago with an ancient floodplain forest, followed by its long use by Maori. The arrival of the Deans brothers in 1843 to establish the fi ...Show more
The Urewera Notebook by Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield
49.99 NZD
Category: Rotorua Books | Reading Level: Near Fine
Katherine Mansfield filled the first half of her 'Urewera Notebook' during a 1907 camping tour of the central North Island, shortly before she left New Zealand forever. Her camping notes offer a rare insight into her attitude to her life at the time, and her country of birth, not in retrospective fictio ...Show more
People's University by Dougherty Ian
49.99 NZD
Category: Rotorua Books
From its earliest days in a cold, rented room in a former Christchurch warehouse, the Canterbury Workers' Educational Association has been a pioneering provider of adult education, enriching, and sometimes even transforming, the lives of thousands of men and women. Through its box and travelling library ...Show more
Waugh Stories : Growing up in Hokitika during the 1960's by Alec Waugh & Richard Waugh
39.99 NZD
Category: Rotorua Books
The Story of Te Kuiti by Russell Young
40.00 NZD
Category: Rotorua Books
The Story of Te Kuiti contains 23 chapters covering some pre-European history, the Poro-o-tarao tunnel contract 1885-1890 bringing the first Europeans to the area. Many archival and newspaper sources are used to build a picture of how the town developed beyond this point. A series of highly interesting ...Show more
Ravaged Beauty: An Environmental History of the Manawatu by Catherine Knight
49.99 NZD
Category: Rotorua Books
While "Ravaged Beauty" is about the environmental history of one North Island region, the impact of human settlement and accompanying development for improving human settlement conditions is typical of many New Zealand regions. This impact, graphically illustrated in this well researched and entertainin ...Show more
Between the Rivers: 1863-2013: a sesqui-centennial souvenir publication
6.25 NZD
Category: Rotorua Books