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Always the Sound of the Sea - The Daily Lives of New Zealand's Lighthouse Keepers by Helen Beaglehole
16.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Very Good
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 a ...Show more
Fire in the Hills by Helen Beaglehole
50.00 NZD
Category: History
Over six to seven hundred years, Maori burned about one third of New Zealand’s ground cover. In the following 70 years, and at a devastating rate, European settlers burned about another third as they cleared and ‘improved’ the land. All too frequently, burn-offs became uncontrollable conflagrations that ...Show more
Lighting the Coast by Helen Beaglehole
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
This comprehensive history of New Zealand's coastal lighthouses provides a detailed portrait of the construction and operation of these 19th- and 20th-century feats of engineering. Shipwrecks were common during this period when shipping became an increasingly important part of the New Zealand economy, a ...Show more
Lighting the Coast -A History of New Zealand's Coastal Lighthouse System by Helen Beaglehole
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
This comprehensive history of New Zealand's coastal lighthouses provides a detailed portrait of the construction and operation of these 19th- and 20th-century feats of engineering. Shipwrecks were common during this period when shipping became an increasingly important part of the New Zealand economy, a ...Show more
One Hundred Havens - The Settlement of the Marlborough Sounds by Helen Beaglehole
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
The many coves of the Marlborough Sounds are some of the most beautiful places in New Zealand. History has played out here in complex ways - Maori and Pakeha, land and sea, boom and bust, locals and tourists. It's a glorious but challenging environment and generations of farmers, miners and tourism oper ...Show more
War Zones by Helen Beaglehole
19.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
In 1942, everyone wants a Dad who's a hero. But only a few think Tom's Dad's a hero - to the rest he's am unpatriotic coward. Desperate to be accepted, unable to forget what his father taught him, Tom plays it safe, until he too has to make a stand. Helen Beaglehole's World War II setting and her treatm ...Show more
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