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100 Years of Motoring in New Zealand by John McCrystal
69.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Recording New Zealand's experience of motoring, from the magnificent to the mundane, the grim to the glorious, this account ranges from the bumpy beginnings and early epic journeys to mass ownership and contemporary congestion.
Cars and Kiwis : The golden age of motoring by John McCrystal
30.00 NZD
Category: Cars & Motorcycles
Austin Somerset, Morris Minor, Standard Vanguard, Ford Prefect, Vauxhall Wyvern, Jowett Javelin, Hillman Super Minx ...names redolent of the heyday of British car manufacturing, and for a great many of us representative of the cars we grew up with. From dated-looking Forty-niner Fords and Chevy Fleetlin ...Show more
Dancing with the Machine by Jo Morgan; John McCrystal
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Mountaineer, adventurer, avid motorcyclist and constant traveller, Jo Morgan has lived an extraordinary life.The youngest of eight children, Jo was brought up largely by her mum after her father died when she was only one, and she has always had an adventurous side. As soon as she turned 15, Jo got her ...Show more
Eden Park: a history by John McCrystal and Lindsay Knight
70.00 NZD
Category: Rugby
Between 1900-10 Auckland's Kingsland Cricket Club rented land close to what is now Sandringham Road. Not long afterward, Eden Cricket Club purchased circa 15 acres in that area and went on to build what we now know as Eden Park. Over the past century, it has been through may changes and in 1022, as it h ...Show more
Silk Riders : Jo and Gareth Morgan's Incredible Journey on the Trail of Marco Polo by Joanne & Gareth Morgan with John McCrystal
37.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
The Silk Rider trip was conceived after three biking trips of shorter duration u two in the Himalayas and one in the Andes. It was very clear that month-long trips are great but there is another level u a number of countries to navigate and borders to negotiate; a trip without any pre-arranged acc ...Show more
Singing the Trail: The story of Mapping Aotearoa New Zealand by John McCrystal
69.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: new
The very first maps were oral maps made by early Polynesian and Maori settlers which were waypoints, described as "survey pegs of memory," lists of places in songs, chants, karakia, and stories that showed direction. Hundreds of years later, the Dutch Abel Tasman sailed here and made the first attempt a ...Show more
The Cars We Loved - New Zealanders' love affair with british cars of the 1940s, '50s and '60s by John McCrystal
36.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A Blokes in Sheds take on New Zealanders' love affair with old British cars. Centred on the marques of the late forties through to the end of the sixties - Humbers and Fords, Vauxhalls and Rovers, Hillmans and Austins - The Cars We Loved collects together the stories of the owners, fixers, drivers and l ...Show more
The New Zealand Book of Lists by John McCrystal and Steve Barnett
19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: good
A compendium of curious information on New Zealand including odd, arcane, extraordinary and surprising facts, fascinating figures, unusual statistics and must-talk-about-trivia -- making this title a sort of a localised Guinness Book of Records. Lists include: famous Kiwis who were expelled from school; ...Show more
The New Zealand Book of Rugby Lists by Steve Barnett & John McCrystal
29.99 NZD
Category: Rugby
A miscellany of rugby trivia for the footy equivalent of trainspotters (and lets face it, there are thousands and thousands of them). Ranging from the weird to the drop-dead serious, the lists include: ACCs top rugby injuries, animals on the field, best rugby grounds 2nd or 3rd div, best-ever NZ fifte ...Show more
The Originals: 1905 All Black Rugby Odyssey by John McCrystal
34.95 NZD
Category: Sport
On Friday 8th September, 1905, the Rimutaka docked at Plymouth to deliver a team of New Zealand rugby players. They were amateurs - men who played the game at home and for their country for the love of it - but their approach set the standard. Over the next six months, these 'Originals' would play a sta ...Show more
Then and Now: Auckland, Waikato & The Bay of Plenty by John McCrystal
24.95 NZD
33.00 (24% off)
Category: Rotorua Books
In an engaging pictorial tour "Then and Now" compares old and modern New Zealand. Historical and contemporary photographs with detailed captions bring to life a cross-section of social and economic history and reflect the changing character, appearance and fortunes of cities, towns and communities from ...Show more
Then and Now: Taranaki, East Coast, by Mccrystal John
24.95 NZD
33.00 (24% off)
Category: Rotorua Books
In an engaging pictorial tour this book compares old and modern Taranaki, East Coast, Hawkes Bay, Wanganui and Manawatu. Historical and contemporary photographs with detailed captions bring to life a cross-section of social and economic history and reflect the changing character, appearance and fortunes ...Show more