Beacon in the Harbour: The Living Springs Story by Joseph Aldridge
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Living Springs has been a well of blessing for the Canterbury community for more than 40 years. Beacon in the Harbour tells the amazing story from the early days of the founders through to the present time.This inspiring tale of faith has long been legendary within Canterbury Christian circles but the f ...Show more
Just to Let You Know I'm Still Alive: Postcards from New Zealanders During the First World War by Glenn Reddiex
$49.95 NZD
Category: NZ History
This book takes the reader on a journey into the colourful world of the picture postcard during World War One when the form of communicating was to mail a postcard with a message on the reverse side to a loved one serving on the battlefields of Europe. They were the emails of yesteryear, the economic wa ...Show more
On Zealand's Hills, Where Tigers Steal Along by Janet Holm
$45.00 NZD
Category: Early NZ | Reading Level: very good
This book brings to life memorable men and women who left the old world to begin a new life in 19th century New Zealand. Many endured extreme hardship as they struggled with the remoteness of the country, and the difficulties of life in the bush or high country. Overcoming daunting obstacles and strivin ...Show more
Guy - The Adventures of New Zealand Photographer Guy Mannering by Guy Mannering
$42.50 NZD
Category: NZ History
"Finally we can all witness the wonderful exploits of Guy Mannering...Photographer, Filmmaker, Jet Boater, Mountaineer, Adventurer. This is a must-read and engaging recollection from Guy's diaries and his wife Margie's memories assembled and written by Margie and his granddaughter Nikki, proving once ag ...Show more
Heartland Strong by Brown Margaret
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
The future of New Zealands rural communities is often in the news. Empty shops, depopulation and lack of jobs are offered as signs that many towns are dying. However, the strength of social ties and development of digital technologies, the innovations in rural entrepreneurship and the functioning inform ...Show more
The Waterlily Diary of Jack Atkinson by Colin Amodeo
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
An insight into the minds of young men of the 1930s and a glimpse of island life before tourism.
Fresh Fields: More Writing from out of Town by John Gordon (ed.)
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Short Stories and poetry relating to New Zealand's rural and farming culture.
The Good Citizen by Denis Dwyer
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
The illegitimate baby of an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, Tom Ryan and his family were banished from Ireland to the far ends of the earth: New Zealand. He went on to score the first points for the first All Blacks rugby team and have a huge influence on the development of tourism services in Taupo. He became ...Show more
Unearthly Landscapes : New Zealand's Old Cemeteries by Stephen Deed
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
By the nineteenth century the ancient parish churchyards of Britain, burdened with generations of dead, were unable to cope with the strain of rising numbers of corpses. Public concern about health problems eventually put an end to the local parish churchyard burial, and by the time settlers set sail fo ...Show more
Pushing His Luck : Report of the expedition and death of Harry Whitcombe by Hilary Low translated from Jakob Lauper
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
In 1863 Henry Whitcombe, a young civil engineer and Canterbury's Provincial Road Surveyor, led an expedition to find a route across the Southern Alps in advance of the West Coast gold rushes. Jakob Lauper, a hardy Swiss goldminer, was hired to accompany him. The journey turned to tragedy. Dogged by appa ...Show more
Among Secret Beauties: A Memoir of Mountaineering in New Zealand and the Himalayas by Brian Wilkins
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Fine
Climbing entered the world stage in the 1950s: this was the era that produced not only Sir Edmund Hillary but a strong body of world-class New Zealand climbers. In this important and dramatic book Brian Wilkins, who was part of the adventure, shares his experiences of climbing in the Southern Alps and t ...Show more