Great Tales from New Zealand History by Gordon McLauchlan
29.99 NZD
31.00 (3% off)
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: new
Fascinating anecdotes from New Zealand history. 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 b ...Show more
Wars without End: The Land Wars in Nineteenth Century New Zealand by Danny Keenan
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Very Good
From the earliest days of the European settlement of New Zealand, argues Danny Keenan, Maori struggled to hold on to their land. When bloody open warfare between Maori tribes and Imperial forces broke out in the 1840s and then again in the 1860s, the struggle for land was at the heart of the conflict. T ...Show more
The Quest for Origins : Who first discovered and settled New Zealand and the Pacific Islands? (revised edition 2008) by Kerry Howe
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
A fascinating book that re-examines countless theories about who discovered and first settled in NZ and the Pacific Islands. Media speculation about who 'discovered' NZ (Spanish? Phoenician? Portuguese?) has provided continuing evidence of New Zealanders' fascination with our origins and where we've com ...Show more
A Short Short History of New Zealand by Gordon McLauchlan
9.95 NZD
Category: NZ History
Gordon McLauchlan knows New Zealand intimately and affectionately and has set out in this book to provide readers with an accessible overview of our history. For students, new citizens or anyone needing a quick top-up of historical information.
Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders From Polynesian by James Belich
47.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Very Good
A new paperback reprint of this best-selling and ground-breaking history. When first published in 1996 Making Peoples was hailed as redefining New Zealand history. It was undoubtedly the most important work of New Zealand history since Keith Sinclair's classic A History of New Zealand. Making Peoples co ...Show more
Old South: Life and Times in the Nineteenth-century Mainland by Matthew Wright
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: good-very good
A lively new illustrated history of the South Island by Matthew Wright, Old South tells a story of triumphs, tragedies and earnest hopes. It covers: early Maori-Pakeha conflict, the Wairau Affair, colonial settlement planned and unplanned, the Gold Rush, the growth of farming and the pastoral elite, and ...Show more
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog - Captain Cook in the South Seas by Anne Salmond
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
This text provides an account of Cook's South Sea voyages, in which Cook plunged south to discover Antarctica and then veered north to discover Hawaii. In Anne Salmond's narrative, Cook's ships, far from remaining little wooden islands of Englishness in a Polynesian sea, become ever more tangled in the ...Show more
Gaffer Tape & Greasepaint: 50 years of musical theatre in NZ 1960-2010 by Kate Ghent
10.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
New Zealand Early Settlers Locator (CD-ROM) by Diane Wilson's Chocolate Fish Team
41.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
The Edges of Empires - New Zealand In The Middle Of The Nineteenth Century by Paul Moon
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
Well known historian Paul Moon provides a 'captivating and intimate account of New Zealand in the 1950s.' He shines a 'powerful light' on this previously 'obscured decade' and in doing so, has illuminated one of the most significant periods in the country's history, with an eye for colourful detail and ...Show more
Over the Wide and Trackless Sea: the Pioneer Women and Girls of New Zealand by Megan Hutching
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Megan Hutching has brought together the stories of a dozen women of all walks of life, whose personal tales of triumph and adversity make compelling reading, and whose contribution helped forge the character of contemporary Aotearoa, where their descendants owe their lives, and their lifestyles, to the ...Show more