Early Noble Chiefs in New Zealand or Niu Tireni by Jean Jackson
$42.50 NZD
Category: Early NZ | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Indexes names of signatories and witnesses found in H.H. Turton's Maori deeds of old private land purchases in New Zealand from the year 1815 to 1840 with pre-emptive and other claims : together with a list of the old land claims, and the report of Mr. Commissioner F. Dillon Bell.
Report of The Waitangi Tribunal on The Orakei Claim (Wai-9)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Te Tiriti o Waitangi/The Treaty of Waitangi
Secondhand. Claim Wai 9, the Orakei claim, was filed in February 1984 by Joe Hawke and 12 others on behalf of Ngati Whatua and concerned the Orakei block in Auckland.
Explorers, Whalers, and Tattooed Sailors: Adventurous Tales from Early New Zealand by Gordon Ell (ed.); Sarah Ell (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Early NZ | Reading Level: Very Good
Secondhand. This collection of first-hand accounts, drawn from early writings and out-of-print books, lets the first Europeans to visit this country tell their own stories of exploration, risk and adventure. Abel Tasman and Joseph Banks write of their first encounters with the people of this new land, ...Show more
An Errand of Mercy: Captain Jacob Eckhoff and the Loss of the Kakanui by Redmer Yska
$22.50 NZD
Category: Early NZ
Secondhand. In this untold chapter of 19th century maritime history, Redmar Yska traces his great-grandfather's heroic endeavours to save the lives of ten Dunedin sealers abandoned - and close to starving - on subantarctic Macquarie Island. But Jacob Eckhoff's life is also an epic tale of loyalty, bitt ...Show more
The Waitangi Tribunal - Te Roopu Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi by Janine Hayward (ed.); Nicola R Wheen (ed.)
$37.50 NZD
Category: Te Tiriti o Waitangi/The Treaty of Waitangi | Reading Level: near fine
Secondhand. The Waitangi Tribunal was established in 1975 to hear claims by Maori against the Crown arising under the Treaty of Waitangi. Today it sits at the heart of the Treaty settlement process, with a unique jurisdiction to investigate claims and make recommendations for a settlement. The Tribunal ...Show more
Four-Legged Major by Graham Spencer
$21.50 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Major was the mascot of the 19 Battalion and Armoured Regiment of the NZ Army from 1940 to 1944, serving in North Africa, and Italy, wounded in the former and dying of illness in Italy in 1944, to be buried alongside two officers from the regiment. Such was Major's military status that an e ...Show more
A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa by Catherine Hammond, Shaun Higgins
$65.00 NZD
Category: Early NZ
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
The Changing Land: A Short History of New Zealand (Second Edition) by Michael Turnbull; Illustrated by Jill McDonald
$18.50 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. First published in 1960, this is Second edition, revised and enlarged. A well-written book on New Zealand history for young people.
Petticoat Pioneers (Full Three Volume Set) by Miriam Macgregor; Barbara Harper
$165.00 NZD
Category: Early NZ | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Petticoat Pioneers One, Two and Three. All three are first edition (1973, 1975 and 1980). Book One and Two are about North Island women of the colonial era, including personal studies of 94 women, no matter they are Maori or Pakeha, married or single, educated or barely literate, well-to-do ...Show more
Those Who Have the Courage - The History of the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps by Matthew Wright
$95.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military History
'Those Who Have the Courage will be a valuable resource for anyone who is interested in the military and social history of New Zealand. It is a comprehensive history of the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps, the Mounted Rifles and predecessor units ¿' - Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro, from the Foreword ...Show more
George Rhodes of the Levels and his Brothers: Early settlers of New Zealand, Particularly the story of the Founding of the Levels, the first sheep station in South Canterbury by A. E. Woodhouse
$285.00 NZD
Category: Early NZ | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. An in depth history and biography of the lives of the Rhodes' Brothers - William, Robert, Joseph, Peter and George - which also covers the early pastoral settlement of South Canterbury between 1839 and 1884. Illustrated with monochrome photographs and folded maps.