Untouchable Girls: The Topp Twins' Story by Lynda Topp, Jools Topp
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
The incredible story of how a couple of country kids from Huntly became much-loved Kiwi icons and TV stars, with their own unique brand of original country music and comedy that has captivated audiences in New Zealand and overseas for over 40 years. Jools and Lynda Topp aka The Topp Twins tell this sto ...Show more
Iconic Kiwi Pubs: From Mangonui to Bluff by George Lockyer
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
If you really want to know what makes a town tick, look no further than the local pub.To create this tribute to that integral part of our culture - the Kiwi pub - George Lockyer has travelled the length and breadth of New Zealand visiting the country's public houses, bars and hotels. Along the way, he h ...Show more
Missionaries, Wives & Roses by Ann Chapman
$25.00 NZD
$35.00 (28% off)
Category: NZ History
Roses bred by Ken Nobbs and named after the early Far North pioneers - generally the wives of missionaries, but includes a few others also. Pictures of most roses, and a biography of the person the rose is named after.
The Last Secret Agent: The untold story of my life as a spy behind Nazi enemy lines by Pippa Latour
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
The extraordinary true story of one of the last female special operation agents in France to get out alive after its liberation in WWII. Born in 1921, Pippa Latour was a covert special operations agent who parachuted into a field in Nazi-occupied Normandy. Trained by the British as a Special Operations ...Show more
A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa by Catherine Hammond, Shaun Higgins
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
In 1848, two decades after a French inventor mixed daylight with a cocktail of chemicals to fix the view outside his window onto a metal plate, photography arrived in Aotearoa. How did these 'portraits in a machine' reveal Maori and Pakeha to themselves and to each other? Were the first photographs 'a g ...Show more
Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
A massive, predatory bird and its place in history and myth. The legend of Pouakai, aka the extinct Haast's Eagle, takes Peter Walker on a journey from an 1860s Canterbury sheep run to a deep cave near Karamea as he learns the story of the mighty hunter that inhabited a peak in the foothills of the Sout ...Show more
Ngatokimatawhaorua - The Biography of a Waka by Jeff Evans
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Ngatokimatawhaorua, the longest waka taua to be built in modern times, is a national taonga and resides at the Treaty Grounds at Waitangi. The inspiration for its construction came from Te Puea Harangi's dream to build seven waka for the 1940 centennial commemorations of the signing of the Treaty of Wai ...Show more
Introducing the Women's Suffrage Petition 1893 (BWB Texts) by Barbara Brookes and Jared Davidson
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
In 1893 New Zealand became the first country in the world with universal suffrage: all New Zealand women now had the right to vote. This achievement owed much to an extraordinary document: the 1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition. Over 270 metres long, with the signatures of some 24,000 women (and at least tw ...Show more
From Crime to Care: The history of abortion in Aotearoa New Zealand by Felicity Goodyear-Smith
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
This book gives a chronological history of abortion in Aotearoa New Zealand from pre-European times to the present. It includes key events including legislative changes, anti-abortion protests, lobbying by various factions, development of funded abortion services for women throughout New Zealand, and re ...Show more
All Sorts of Lives - Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
Published to celebrate Katherine Mansfield's centenary, this is a compact but comprehensive new portrait of her life, work, relevance and wonderfully inspiring personality. Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's short but dazzling career was characterised by struggle, ...Show more
The Story of a Treaty / He Korero Tiriti (3rd edition) by Claudia Orange
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: 1st
The Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a central document in New Zealand history. This lively account tells the story of the Treaty from its signing in 1840, through the debates and struggles of the nineteenth century, to the gathering political momentum of recent decades. The third edition of T ...Show more