Te Toki Me Te Whao: The Story of Maori Carving Tools by Clive Fugill
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
It is over a century since the last major book on Māori carving tools. Clive Fugill, Master Carver at the NZ Māori Arts & Crafts Institute, tells the mythical, traditional and modern stories of the making and use of carving tools, including the adze (toki) and the chisel (whao) with detailed drawing ...Show more
Anzac Experience by Pugsley Christopher
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Very Good
This gripping illustrated history captures the evolution by trial and error of the New Zealand army, alongside those of Australia and Canada, from the Boer War in South Africa to involvement in the First World War. In its research and writing, Christopher Pugsley walked every New Zealand battlefield on ...Show more
Remembering Kaikoura Earthquake by Andrew Spencer
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
On reflection - 5 years on with lift out quotes from a range of people that were there to experience the damage first hand. Before and after quake images plus hero profiles and hardships. Includes - Seddon, Hanmer, Culverton and other wider rural areas
Hei Taonga Ma Nga Uri Whakatipu: Treasures for the Rising Generation: The Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919-1923 by Wayne Ngata & Anne Salmond
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
From 1919 to 1923, at Sir Apirana Ngata's initiative, a team from the Dominion Museum travelled to tribal areas across Te Ika-a-Māui/the North Island to record tikanga Māori (ancestral practices) that Ngata feared might be disappearing. These ethnographic expeditions, the first in the world to be inspi ...Show more
Te Kupenga: 101 Stories of Aotearoa from the Turnbull by Michael Keith; Chris Szekely
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Published to mark 100 years since the establishment of the famous Alexander Turnbull Library, one of New Zealand's great storehouses, this energetic, comprehensive book approaches the history of Aotearoa New Zealand through 101 remarkable objects. Each tells a story, be it of discovery, courage, disposs ...Show more
Voices from the New Zealand Wars | He Reo nō ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O'Malley
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
'Welcome to our story, this history. Wherever in the world the bones of your ancestors lie, wherever their ashes may have been dispersed, here you will find traces of them, and of yourself... It is, of course, a story of colonisation and resistance - and a history that has never stopped repeating.' The ...Show more
Nga Tama Toa: The Price of Citizenship : C Company 28 (Maori) Battalion 1939-1945 by Monty Soutar
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
The fascinating story of C Company, Maori Battalion told through personal recollections, eyewitness accounts, numerous anecdotes and amazing photographs. At times heart-rending, at times heart-warming, this impressive book captures the special 'spirit' of the Maori Battalion - an amazing book that docum ...Show more
Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War by Monty Soutar
$90.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
This major publication about Maori participation in the First World War is written by NZ's leading Maori military historian Dr Monty Soutar, author of the award-winning Nga Tama Toa C Company, Maori Battalion. A fascinating look at the Pioneer Battalion (the Battalion created for Maori to serve) that wi ...Show more
The Front Line: Images of New Zealanders in the Second World War by Glyn Harper; Susan Lemish
$80.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
NEW ZEALAND'S WAR THROUGH THE LENS OF THOSE WHO SERVED A landmark book exploring New Zealand's second world war effort through over 800 photographs, many never before published and many live-action shots takenby those at the front. The images span North Africa, Europe and the Pacific, as well as action ...Show more
Home Boats by Nick Tolerton
$80.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
The story of the magnificent passenger and cargo ships that made New Zealand – and the colourful characters who manned them. Masters, engineers, deck officers, radio operators, seamen, cadets, shore staff and passengers talked to maritime historian Nick Tolerton for this brilliantly illustrated book, fu ...Show more
The Treaty of Waitangi | Te Tiriti o Waitangi: an Illustrated History by Claudia Orange
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Claudia Orange's writing on the Treaty of Waitangi has played a central role in national understanding of this foundational document. This fully revised and updated edition (previously entitled An Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi) brings the Treaty's history to life with a richly informativ ...Show more
The New Zealand Wars | Nga Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O'Malley
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: 1st | Reading Level: near fine
The New Zealand Wars were a series of conflicts that profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nations history. Fought between the Crown and various groups of Maori between 1845 and 1872, the wars touched many aspects of life in nineteenth century New Zealand, even in those regions spared actual ...Show more