The Christchurch Earthquake: The New Zealand Defence Force responds
$30.00 NZD
Category: Christchurch City & Banks Peninsula
Secondhand. A hardcover book that details in words and photographs the response of the New Zealand Army, Air Force and Navy to the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
Ghost Towns Of New Zealand by David McGill
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Regional History
Secondhand. First published in 1980. This is a copy of 1997 reprint. Ghost Towns is a comprehensive and lively look at those towns throughout the country which either no longer exist or of which very little remains. Crammed full of historic photographs this book is a window on New Zealand's colonial hi ...Show more
Still More Grady's People: Still More Unfortgettable Charaters in the Top of the South Island by Don Grady
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Regional History
Secondhand. This is the third book in the popular Grady's People series. Don Grady has assembled another great collection of stories and photographs about 30 fascinating people who live in the top of the South Island. They include Bill Brownlee of Te Puru Bay in the Marlborough Sounds and the remarkabl ...Show more
A History of Rotorua: A Brief Survey of the Settlement of Rotorua and environs by our Pioneers, Maori and Pakeha by Enid Tapsell
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Regional History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. This book, some pages of which hold as much thrill and tragedy as those of a "wild west" novel, is a "human interest" history of Rotorua and environs, over the period from circa 1350 A.D. to the early 20th century, and deals with the Maori, the trader, missionaries, explorers, the Armed Con ...Show more
Hollyford Muster 1948 by Gordon Donaldson-Law
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Regional History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. This remarkable book is set in 1948. It describes the musterers fight to survive against the elements, and the dangers of this isolated terrain. Battling with wild cattle, exhaustion, and often frustration calls for a special type of man.
The Kapiti Coast: Maori Tribal History and Place Names of the Paekakariki-otaki District by W. C. Carkeek
$185.00 NZD
Category: NZ Regional History
Secondhand. First edition. Illustrated with b/w photographs and maps. The most authoritative account of the Maori history and place names of the Paekakariki-Otaki district, the heartland of the iwi Ngati Raukawa.
A Splendid Isolation: Gisborne East Coast 1950-2012 by Sheridan Gundry
$75.00 NZD
Category: Gisborne
Secondhand. A Splendid Isolation is a beautifully illustrated reference book chock-full of stories that detail the history of the Gisborne East Coast district from 1950 until 2012. The first major history of the region since J A Mackay's Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast of 1949, A Splendid Isola ...Show more
A Journey in time: Otepopo, Herbert and Waianakarua 1848-2005 by Dorothy McKenzie
$65.00 NZD
Category: Otago
Secondhand. A book of photos which gives a brief sketch of life as it has been lived in Otepopo, Herbert and Waianakarua for almost 160 years.
The Jubilee Book of Canterbury Rhymes by O. T. J. Alpers (ed.)
$42.50 NZD
Category: Canterbury
Secondhand. Popular Edition. Early poems collected from magazines and newspapers like Lyttelton Times, Canterbury Times, the Christchurch Press and Weekly Press, the Otago Witness, etc. Edited with an introduction and notes biographical and explanatory.
Above the City - A History of Otago Boys' High School 1863-2013 by Rory Sweetman
$47.50 NZD
Category: Otago | Reading Level: Near Fine
Secondhand. This is the first published history of one of New Zealand's oldest secondary schools. Commissioned to mark the 150th anniversary of the foundation of Otago Boys' High School in 1863, this book traces its early tribulations, its growth and development, and its response to the challenges of s ...Show more
Slippery Jim or Patriotic Statesman? - James Macandrew of Otago by R. J. Bunce
$30.00 NZD
Category: Otago
Secondhand. This is a biography of one of New Zealands most colourful and persuasive politicians. When James Macandrew arrived in Dunedin from Scotland in 1851, other settlers were impressed by his energy and enthusiasm for new initiatives. With his finger in a lot of commercial pies, he set about maki ...Show more
Pioneers of Martins Bay (First Edition) by Alice MacKenzie
$125.00 NZD
Category: NZ Regional History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. First edition. A lively and personal account of life in New Zealand's most remote settlement in a now almost abandoned district in the far south-west of the South Island, just north of the Milford sound. Written by a former resident. Excellent for social or family historians with interest ...Show more