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 Review of Agricultural Progress in the Nelson Land District by Theodore Rigg
$18.50 NZD
Category: Nelson
Aorere Gold : The history of the Golden Bay goldfields, 1856—1863 by Mike Johnston
$100.00 NZD
Category: Tasman
Aorere Gold not only provides a comprehensive account of New Zealand’s first gold rush in the Aorere Valley and subsequent rushes to other Golden Bay goldfields, but also the social history of the bay. This thoroughly researched and well-illustrated 480-page book provides a vivid picture of the many ch ...Show more
As High as the Hills - The Centennial History of Picton by Henry D. Kelly
$55.00 NZD
Category: Marlborough
Bainham A History by Carol Dawber
$55.00 NZD
Category: Tasman
Second hand. Bainham, in the southwest corner of Golden Bay, is the gateway to the Heaphy Track and the Kahurangi National Park. Settled by goldminers, the isolated community grew as the sawmills came and the land was cleared for farming. This book is about the goldminers, sawmillers and farmers, the s ...Show more
Beyond the Marble Mountain by J. Halket Millar
$42.50 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
A Cadsonbury facsimile of the original edition. Selected from a series of article in The Nelson Evening Mail, the stories that make up this volume tell something of the background of Nelson, and more particularly of Golden Bay, in the earliest years of European settlement.