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Black November by Geoffrey Rice
39.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Second hand. First published in 1988, Black November now has three new chapters to bring it up to date, over forty first-hand eyewitness accounts, and over 200 photographs and cartoons, many here published for the first time. First published 1988. This enlarged, revised 2nd edition in November 2005. ...Show more
Christchurch Changing: an Illustrated History by Geoffrey Rice
39.95 NZD
Category: Rotorua Books
This lively survey tells the story of a major New Zealand city, the capital of Canterbury province and the South Island's largest metropolitan centre. Why was the city established in the middle of a swamp? What was it like to live in Christchurch in the 1850s, the 1870s or the 1940s? What has changed, w ...Show more
Christchurch Crimes and Scandals 1876 -99 by Geoffrey W. Rice
35.00 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
The Boxing Day Riot of 1879 when a parade of Orange Lodge members was attacked by a mob of Irish Catholic navvies swinging axe-handles, a slander case involving one of the city's richest merchants, the famous Severed Hand Mystery of 1885 ... Following on from his first volume, Christchurch Crimes 1850-1 ...Show more
Christchurch in the Nineties by Geoffrey Rice
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
This chronology of events in and near Christchurch was compiled from a survey of microfilm of 'The Press' held in the Central Library of the University of Canterbury. The editor admits that the selection of events was personal and idiosyncratic, and the result is certainely a fairly dry kind of a public ...Show more
Cricketing Colonists by Rice Geoffrey
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
John Robert Godley, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, James Edward FitzGerald - these are the names that usually come to mind as the founders of Canterbury. But there was a fourth vitally important individual, arguably equal in importance to FitzGerald, whose story remains largely unknown. William Guise Brittan ...Show more
Lyttelton: Port and Town - an Illustrated History: Port and Town - an Illustrated History by Geoffrey Rice
34.95 NZD
Category: Rotorua Books
Secondhand. Signed by the author. The story of Christchurch's main port and one of its oldest boroughs. From the 'Pilgrim Port' of the 1850s, with its single jetty to receive thousands of Canterbury Assocaition settlers to the bustling modern port town of today.This is the story of Canterbury's main po ...Show more
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