Nelson, the Latest Settlement of the New Zealand Company

$100.00 NZD

Category: Early New Zealand

Big River Quartz Mine by Les Wright

$55.00 NZD

Category: West Coast

The Adventures of Kimble Bent by James Cowan

$100.00 NZD

Category: Early New Zealand

Waiuta Ghosts - The Meanderings of a Quartz-miner by Ed. C. Chandler

$95.00 NZD

Category: West Coast

Maori Land Tenure - Studies of a Changing Institution by I. H. Kawharu

$65.00 NZD

Category: Maori History, Society and Culture

The Early Journals of Henry Williams by Lawrence M. Rogers

$275.00 NZD

Category: Early New Zealand

This Pakeha Life: An Unsettled Memoir by Alison Jones

$40.00 NZD

Category: NZ History

This book is about my making sense here, of my becoming and being Pakeha. Every Pakeha becomes a Pakeha in their own way, finding her or his own meaning for that Maori word. This is the story of what it means to me. I have written this book for Pakeha - and other New Zealanders - curious about their sen se of identity and about the ambivalences we Pakeha often experience in our relationships with Maori. A timely and perceptive memoir from award-winning author and academic Alison Jones. As questions of identity come to the fore once more in New Zealand, this frank and humane account of a life spent traversing Pakeha and Maori worlds offers important insights into our shared life on these islands.       Author Biography: Alison Jones is an educational researcher and a Professor in Te Puna Wananga, the School of Maori and Indigenous Education at the University of Auckland. Her first book with Kuni Kaa Jenkins, He Korero: Words Between Us - First Maori-Pakeha Conversations on Paper (Huia, 2011), won the Nga Kupu Ora Maori Book Awards, the PANZ Book Design Award, and the Best Book in Higher Education Publishing (Copyright Licensing New Zealand) in 2012. Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds, co-authored with Kuni Kaa Jenkins, won best illustrated nonfiction book at the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. ...Show more

Reminiscences of the War in New Zealand by Thomas W. Gudgeon

$55.00 NZD

Category: NZ Land Wars

April 25 1915 by Spencer Westmacott

$32.99 NZD

Category: NZ & World War I | Reading Level: very good

On April 25, 1915, in the famous Battle of the Landing at what become known as Anzac Cove, Lieutenant Spencer Westmacott of the Auckland Infantry Battalion was seriously wounded. However, he survived and went on to write an account of the day which has been called one of the best and truest testimonies of personal experience in battle ever writte. This is his story. ...Show more

Colonial Cap and Gown by W. J. Gardner

$32.50 NZD

Category: Early New Zealand

Mad on Radium: New Zealand in the Atomic Age by Rebecca Priestley

$32.50 NZD

Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good

‘New Zealand is known around the world for our nuclear-free stance – banning US ship visits, prohibiting uranium mining, selling ourselves to the world on our clean, green, nuclear-free image. But have we always been nuclear sceptics?’ In this engaging and accessible history, prize-win ning author Rebecca Priestley reveals the alternative history of ‘nuclear New Zealand’ – a country where there was much enthusiasm for nuclear science and technology, from the first users of x-rays and radium in medicine; the young New Zealand physicists seconded to work on the Manhattan Project; support for the British bomb tests in the Pacific; plans for a heavy water plant at Wairakei; prospecting for uranium on the West Coast of the South Island; plans for a nuclear power station on the Kaipara Harbour and thousands of scientists and medical professionals working with nuclear technology. Priestley then considers the transition to ‘nuclear-free New Zealand’ policy in the 1980s. The change was dramatic: in the late 1970s, less than a decade before becoming so proudly nuclear-free, New Zealand was considering nuclear power to meet growing electricity demand in the North Island and the government was supporting a uranium prospecting programme on the West Coast of the South Island. But following the nuclear-free policy, anything with nuclear associations came under suspician: taxi drivers referred to a science institute using a particle accelerator as ‘the bomb factory’ and Jools Topp of the Topp Twins refused radiation therapy for cancer, telling the doctors ‘I’m a lifelong member of Greenpeace, why would I let you irradiate me?’   By uncovering the long and rich history of New Zealanders’ engagement with the nuclear world and the roots of our nuclear-free identity, by leading us into popular culture, politics, medicine and science, Priestley reveals much about our culture’s evolving attitudes to science and technology and the world beyond New Zealand’s shores. ...Show more

Memoirs of the Life and Labours of the Rev. Samuel Marsden

$75.00 NZD

Category: Early New Zealand