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The New Zealand Wars | Nga Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O'Malley
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
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 actua ...Show more
100 Days That Mapped a Nation by Graeme Lay
$65.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: new
October 2019 marks the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook’s first landfall in New Zealand. One Hundred Days that Mapped a Nation marks this historic occasion by looking at Cook’s intrepid journeys to New Zealand and the Pacific that were unprecedented for the time and had such far-reaching conseque ...Show more
Des Townson: A Sailing Legacy by BRIAN PEET
$80.00 NZD
Category: History
Des Townson was a yacht designer and boatbuilder who possessed an analytical mind, an innate feel for sailing boats and a wonderful eye for their visual balance. During a five decade long design career he produced some of the most eye-catching, easily handled and well performing maritime craft to ever g ...Show more
A Brief History of Life on Earth by Clemence Dupont
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
The story of life on earth unfolds in dramatic fashion in this amazing concertina picture book that takes readers from 4.6 billion years ago to the present day. It's difficult to grasp the enormous changes life on Earth has undergone since it first came into existence, but this marvelously illustrat ...Show more
Women Mean Business: Colonial businesswomen in New Zealand by Catherine Bishop
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
From Kaitaia in Northland to Oban on Stewart Island, New Zealands nineteenth-century towns were full of entrepreneurial women. Contrary to what we might expect, colonial women were not only wives and mothers or domestic servants. A surprising number ran their own businesses, supporting themselves and t ...Show more
The Little Ice Age - How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 by Brian Fagan
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
The Little Ice Age tells the fascinating story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history. Using sources ranging from the dates of long-ago wine harvests and the business records of medieval monasteries to modern chemical analysis of ice cores, renowned archaeo ...Show more
For King and Other Countries by Glyn Harper
$60.00 NZD
Category: History
New Zealands military contribution to the First World War was a massive effort for a small country. The figure most often quoted is that from October 1914 through to October 1918, just over 100,000 New Zealanders embarked for military service overseas. But that number does not include the thousands who ...Show more
From Disaster to Recovery: the Hastings CBD 1931-35 by Michael Fowler
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
No reply from publisher as at October 2008. On the third of Febraury 1931 at 10.47am., a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Hawke's Bay. In Hastings at least 93 people lost their lives, with hundreds more injured. In this book Michael Fowler details the destructive impact of the 1931 quake on the Hastings CBD ...Show more
A Woman of No Importance - The Untold Story of Virginia Hall WW2s Most Dangerous Spy by Sonia Purnell
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
***A New York Times bestseller*** 'Riveting' Mick Herron, New York Times * 'A rousing tale' The Times, Book of the Week * 'Cracking' Telegraph * 'Gripping' Irish Times * 'Brilliant' Evening Standard * 'Excellent' Spectator In September 1941, a young American woman strides up the steps of a hotel in Lyon ...Show more
In the Shadow of the Cape: a History of the Gordon Family of Clifton by Angus Gordon
$49.00 NZD
Category: History
History of the Gordon Family of Clifton - Cape KidnappersSix generations of Gordon's have lived and worked at Clifton. This book is a personal look at the lives of those at Clifton over the years.
A House in the Mountains: the Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
The extraordinary story of four courageous women who helped form the Italian Resistance during the Second World War In the late summer of 1943, when Italy changed sides in the War and the Germans, now their enemies, occupied the north of the country, an Italian Resistance was born. Ada, Frida, Silvia a ...Show more
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy: 1945-1975 by Max Hastings
$14.00 NZD
Category: History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'His masterpiece' Antony Beevor, Spectator'A masterful performance' Sunday Times'By far the best book on the Vietnam War' Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the Year Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for ...Show more
