Can't Get There from Here: New Zealand Passenger Rail Since 1920 by Andre Brett
$65.00 NZD
Category: Transport
Urban passenger rail patronage in Auckland and Wellington is now booming after many years of decline. Outside these two centres, however, the situation is quite different: intercity and regional passenger rail services are scarce, and no other city possesses suburban rail. Can't Get There from Here tra ...Show more
The Gosden Years - A New Zealand Film Festival Legacy by Bill Gosden
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Bill Gosden was at the forefront of Aotearoa film culture from 1980 to 2019. The Gosden Years is a record of his enormous legacy as director of the New Zealand International Film Festival—the country’s leading annual cinema event and a constant wellspring of film discovery and appreciation. Conceived by ...Show more
The Battlecruiser New Zealand - A Gift to Empire by Matthew J. Wright
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
This book tells the story of HMS New Zealand, a battlecruiser paid for by the people of New Zealand in 1909, and when Japan was perceived as a threat in Australasia and the Pacific. Born of the collision between New Zealand's patriotic dreams and European politics, the tale of HMS New Zealand is further ...Show more
The Spirit of Cardrona: Where Dreams are Hatched by Desiree Reid-Whitaker
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
The inspirational story of the Cardrona Distillery 'Ever since I was really little, I have dreamed big dreams. It's nice to imagine what could be, and leave it at that. But I've never been that sort of dreamer. I've always wanted to take one of my dreams, find just the right one-and turn it into someth ...Show more
The Bikes We Built: A journey through New Zealand made bicycles by Jonathan Kennett
$50.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
Take a ride through the history of 61 New Zealand made bicycles from 1869 to the present day. From the velocipede to the penny farthing, to the Raleigh Chopper and the BMX, discover how Kiwis have reinvented the wheel over the last 150 years. Unearthing secrets from factories, garages, archives and mus ...Show more
Road People of Aotearoa - House-Truck Journeys 1978-1984 by Paul Gilbert
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
A historic photo-essay by the late Paul C. Gilbert, this book chronicles the early days of the New Zealand phenomenon of DIY house trucks, which appeared on the roads around the mid-1970s as part of an alternative lifestyle movement. The house-truckers were drawn to the alternative life and music festiv ...Show more
Voices from the New Zealand Wars | He Reo nō ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O'Malley
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
'Welcome to our story, this history. Wherever in the world the bones of your ancestors lie, wherever their ashes may have been dispersed, here you will find traces of them, and of yourself... It is, of course, a story of colonisation and resistance - and a history that has never stopped repeating.' The ...Show more
Cover Story - 100 Beautiful, Strange and Frankly Incredible New Zealand LP Covers by Steve Braunias
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Music is a key to culture, no matter where in the world you are from and New Zealand is no exception. In the decades from 1957- 87 the LP was king of New Zealand recorded music. To sell the music cover art was needed, and the book showcases 100 of the best examples at full LP size. Divided into themes, ...Show more
Hei Taonga Ma Nga Uri Whakatipu: Treasures for the Rising Generation: The Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919-1923 by Wayne Ngata & Anne Salmond
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
From 1919 to 1923, at Sir Apirana Ngata's initiative, a team from the Dominion Museum travelled to tribal areas across Te Ika-a-Māui/the North Island to record tikanga Māori (ancestral practices) that Ngata feared might be disappearing. These ethnographic expeditions, the first in the world to be inspi ...Show more
Assembly - New Zealand Car Production 1921-1998 by Mark Webster
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
New Zealand’s car assembly industry began with the Colonial Motor Company piecing together Ford Model Ts in the early 1920s, and the first true production line came in 1926 with General Motors. For the next 70 years, the assembly industry directly employed thousands of New Zealanders and indirectly supp ...Show more
Come Back to Mona Vale - Life and death in a Christchurch Mansion by Alexander McKinnon
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Come Back to Mona Vale is a beautifully written, compelling narrative/memoir that sets about unravelling the mysteries and anomalies behind the public history of a wealthy Christchurch business family in the first half of the 20th century. The author-as narrator gradually becomes aware that his family h ...Show more