Braemar Station by Duncan and Carol Mackenzie
$70.00 NZD
Category: Farming
· Braemar Station is written and published by Duncan & Carol McKenzie, former owners of Braemar station, celebrating 50 years of farming on a Mackenzie Country station. · Braemar is a 64,000 acre Station situated on the eastern side of Lake Pukaki in the Mackenzie Country. Duncan and Caro ...Show more
Tangata Ngai Tahu: People of Ngai Tahu, Vol 1 by Takerei Norton
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: Tāngata Ngāi
Tangata Ngai Tahu remembers and celebrates the rich and diverse lives of the people of Ngai Tahu. Spanning time, geography and kaupapa, some fifty biographies bring Ngai Tahu history into the present. The people in the book have contributed to their iwi, hapu and whanau in myriad ways: here are rangatir ...Show more
30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders by Matt McEvoy
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
30 Queer Lives explores the lives, struggles and successes of LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders, from north to south and from soldiers, celebrities, lawyers, drag queens, businesspeople and Olympians to farmers and fa`afafine. From the famous — including Grant Robertson, Gareth Farr and Chlöe Swarbrick — to the l ...Show more
Mackenzie of the Mackenzie Country by Herries Beattie
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Herries Beattie's 1946 book, Mackenzie of the Mackenzie Country is combined with his 1959 Mackenzie the Sheep Stealer. This publication is a masterful historical 'who done it' with the author sifting evidence he gathered over the years. The story is retold and debated in Beattie's inimitable style and w ...Show more
Tangata Ngai Tahu / People of Ngai Tahu: Volume Two by Helen Brown & Michael Stevens
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Tāngata Ngāi Tahu, Volume Two remembers and celebrates the rich and diverse lives of the people of Ngāi Tahu. Spanning time, geography and kaupapa, some fifty biographies bring Ngāi Tahu history into the present. The people in the book have contributed to their iwi, hapū and whānau in myriad ways: here ...Show more
A History of New Zealand in 100 Objects by Jock Phillips
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
New Zealand history through a new lens - 100 objects offer 100 entry points into the powerful, captivating stories of our shared past. Authored by award-winning historian Jock Phillips, The History of New Zealand in 100 Objects is gripping, inclusive, often revelatory and deeply human. A colourful and c ...Show more
The Road to Gondwana - In search of the lost supercontinent by Bill Morris
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
The Road to Gondwana traces the steps science took to find Gondwana, and the journey Gondwana itself took through 500 million years of Earth history. The road to Gondwana took western science many hundreds of years to travel. And like Scott's epic haul across the ice of Antarctica, it was a journey jagg ...Show more
A Fish In the Swim of the World by Ben Brown
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Affecting and evocative, this classic memoir by one of Aotearoa's finest Maori writers is now updated with new material. 'This is a book of memories. Some of them are my own. Some of them belong to others. They are as true and as fallible as any memories-distorted by time and distance and a writer's cho ...Show more
Blue Blood - The Inside Story of the National Party in Crisis by Andrea Vance
$38.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Beginning with the shock resignation of John Key, Blue Blood reveals the reasons behind one of the most dramatic falls in popularity in New Zealand's political history and tells the full story of how the National Party went to war with itself. Informed by campaign emails and internal party communication ...Show more
The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi by Ned Fletcher
$70.00 NZD
Category: Education & Learning
How was the English text of the Treaty of Waitangi understood by the British in 1840? That is the question addressed by historian and lawyer Ned Fletcher, in this extensive work. With one exception, the Treaty sheets signed by rangatira and British officials were in te reo Maori. The Maori text, Te Tiri ...Show more
Fragments from a Contested Past (BWB Texts) by Joanna Kidman, Vincent O'Malley, Liana MacDonald, Tom Roa and Keziah Wallis
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
‘What a nation or society chooses to remember and forget speaks to its contemporary priorities and sense of identity. Understanding how that process works enables us to better imagine a future with a different, or wider, set of priorities.’ History has rarely felt more topical or relevant as, all acros ...Show more