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Coates of Kaipara by Michael Bassett
39.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
This is the biography of New Zealand Prime Minister, Gordon Coates (1878-1943). It offers a reassessment of the achievements and failures of a political career which spanned the extremes of popular adulation and contempt.
Next Vintage: The Babich Family and 100 years of New Zealand Wine by Michael Bassett and Judith Bassett
49.99 NZD
Category: Wine, Beer and Spirits
A sumptuous full colour tribute to one of our great winemaking families. In 1916 Josip Babich aged 20 made his first wine from his own grapes at Kaikino in the far north of New Zealand. Six years earlier, he and a brother had travelled all the way from Dalmatia to join three older brothers working on th ...Show more
Puketutu and Its People by Paul Goldsmith; Michael Bassett
55.00 NZD
Category: Rotorua Books | Reading Level: Very Good
DoP November 2008, Auckland 255x235mm / 160pp Cased & jacketed Puketutu is the only significant island in the Manukau Harbour and its natural beauty and proximity to Auckland have long made it a desirable asset. Apihai Te Kawau,the Ngati Whatua and Te Taou chief who invited Governor Hobson to place ...Show more
Roderick Deane : His Life and Times by Michael & Judith Bassett
49.95 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Roderick Deane is one of the most important figures in recent economic and political history. The New Zealand Herald once called him 'the godfather of New Zealand commerce'. In the past twenty years perhaps only Roger Douglas has played a bigger role in shaping the New Zealand economy. As Deputy Governo ...Show more
The Myers by Paul Goldsmith & Michael Bassett
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: Very Good
The Myers is a sweeping study of four generations of the Myers family. It moves from Prussian Poland to the goldfields of Ballarat to bankruptcy in the South Island and then to a growing fortune in beer and liquor. It tells the story of local government involvement by the first two generations, and the ...Show more
Tomorrow Comes the Song: A Life of Peter Fraser by Michael Bassett
49.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Peter Fraser was New Zealand's wartime Prime Minister and a world figure of considerable stature. His political career spanned most of the first half of the twentieth century. This is the first full biography, using considerable material assembled by Michael King. First published 2001.
Working with David - Inside the Lange Cabinet by Michael Bassett
59.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
David Lange's Fourth Labour Government was a watershed in New Zealand history. Whether it was international politics (ANZUS, Mururoa tests, Oxford Union debate) or domestic economics (Roger Douglas's reforms), New Zealand was a vastly different country in 1990 than it had been when Lange won in 1984. Th ...Show more
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