A House not Made With Hands by W.T. Blight
$20.00 NZD
Category: Christchurch City & Banks Peninsula
A Journal of the Bishop's Visitation Tour
$50.00 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
Journal of The Bishop's Tour through his Diocese, including a visit Bishop Selwyn made to the Chatham Islands in the year 1848. First published in 1849 this is a facsimile reprint.
A Journey Back : An Informal History of the Matakitaki River valley by Cecil Wills
$75.00 NZD
Category: Tasman
Not outgoing, a touch reclusive, born in Motueka on 4 June 1932, Cecil Wills attended school at Upper Matakitaki, leaving at 15 to work on the family farm at the mouth of the Glenroy Valley. A territorial soldier at 18, Cecil left home three years later to work at the Murchison Dairy Factory and as a fa ...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.
A Life on Gorge River - New Zealand's Remotest Family by Robert Long
$30.00 NZD
Category: West Coast | Reading Level: very good
Robert Long and his family - wife Catherine, and children Christan (17) and Robyn (14) - live in complete isolation, in a hut two days' walk south of Haast in South Westland. Robert has lived there for nearly 30 years; Catherine for 20 and the kids all their lives. Their only contact with the outside wo ...Show more
A New History of Canterbury by Stevan Eldred-Grigg
$42.50 NZD
Category: Canterbury
Second hand. A history of an unusually prosperous province that the author finds was a 'throughly bourgeois place' and facing complex new challenges. All discussed in relation to migration, domestic life, class, polotics, crime, religion, education, sexuality and pleasure.