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9781869793302
A Life On Gorge River : New Zealand's remotest family
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Robert Long
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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 world is a helicopter or plane once a month, and two trips a year to the 'outside world'.This is the story of how and why Robert - known locally as 'Beansprout' - came to live at Gorge River, and the family's experiences there over the years, living self-sufficiently and forging close bonds with the natural environment. It is an inspiring tale of one man's decision to 'drop out' of capitalist society and successfully establish a lifestyle most New Zealanders can't even imagine, harking back to the days of the earliest pioneers.
First published June 2010.
Trade paperback (UK) 288pp h234mm x w152mm 412g picture sections
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9781877333217
Angelina : From Stromboli to D'Urville Island
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Author:
Gerard Hindmarsh
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In 1906, at just 16 years of age, Angelina Criscillo left the tiny volcanic island of Stromboli, off Sicily, to travel to an even remoter island on the other side of the world.
From the age of eight she had been betrothed to her cousin, Vincenzo Moleta, who was now twice her age and taking her to a new life on D'Urville Island in New Zealand.Facing the fierce tides and weather of this wild island on the edge of Cook Strait, and having to cope with loneliness, the incessant toil of a pioneer farm, and the bitterness of a developing family feud, Angelina found solace in an unlikely friendship with a high-born Maori woman, Wetekia Ruruku Elkington, who lived near by. Together they shared their own struggles, their different cultures and lack of English language; a process that awakened Angelina to her own inner strengths. Angelina and Vincenzo finally left D'Urville Island in 1946 and both died within a few months of each other in ...
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9780143203827
Cannibal Jack
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Trevor Bentley
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In a frontier society full of colourful characters in early nineteenth century New Zealand, Jacky Marmon, more commonly known as Cannibal Jack, was more colourful than most. Jumping ship off the New Zealand coast, he first lived among Ngapuhi at the Bay of Islands, where he acquired five wives and served his chief as a trader and white priest. Joining Hongi Hika's great Musket Wars campaigns against the Tamaki and Kaipara tribes, he claimed to have served as Hika's personal war tohunga. He survived to settle in the Hokianga from 1823 and was involved in Hone Heke's Flagstaff War of 1845. In this biography of a wonderfully curious character, the author of the bestselling Pakeha Maori traces Marmon's life and times, drawing on his own knowledge and research as well as on Marmon's own - not always reliable - personal accounts.
About the author:
Trevor Bentley was educated at the universities of Auckland and Waikato and has a ...
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9781869792800
Dust to Gold : The inspiring story of Bendigo Station home of Shrek
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Author:
John Perriam (photography Stephen Jaquiery)
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Shrek may be the star of Bendigo Station, but the back-story of the station is rich and fascinating, from its earliest days as the scene of New Zealand's richest quartz reef gold strike in the 1860s to its establishment as a 11,000 hectare sheep station producing many of New Zealand's highest quality top price Merino clips. As well as this it's now home to several leading Pinot Noir vineyards, public walkways, a historic reserve and fishing and game hunting. None of this recent development would have come about if it weren't for the far-sighted, entrepreneurial and innovative owners, John and Heather Perriam. They took on Bendigo in the late 1970s after the Clyde Dam project forced them off the nearby family farm. They had spent several years in ultimately fruitless battles with bureaucracy, trying to stop the dam project from going ahead. Things weren't easy at Bendigo Station either. Chief among their problems was a rabbit plague ...
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9780959797497
Grady's People: Unforgettable Characters in the Top of the South Island
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Don Grady
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The people Don Grady met with on his travels around the highways and byways of the top of the South Island include an old one-legged, one-eyed trout poacher who, as he matured, suddenly saw the light of reform and is now a much sought-after professional gamekeeper and hunting and fishing guide at Cape Jackson.
Other notable characters include a sculptor who can provide you with a Tutankhamen replica coffin, or a Golden Bay man who is growing agave to try and launch a new New Zealand tequila industry.
A very entertaining book!
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9780958289825
Heaps More Grady's People
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Don Grady
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This is the fourth installment of "Grady's People."
First published October 2009.
Don Grady has managed to unearth another 16 characters in the Top of the South Island. A major portion of this volume is the fascinating story of Duncan Rutherford and his huge collection of cars and other motor vehicles.
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9780473103835
Innovation and Industry
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NZ$ 80.00 each
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Author:
Deborah G. Walton & Cuddon Limited
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How Cuddon Engineering Helped Shape Marlborough
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9781877505034
Kiwi Heroes : 50 courageous New Zealanders
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Author:
Bronwyn Sell & Winston Aldworth
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Kiwi Heroes brings together the tales of 50 of New Zealand's bravest people. Some of the people featured are household names - some are barely known outside their own households. Some have become heroes in a moment, some over a lifetime. Some are professionals who have gone beyond the call of duty; others are ordinary people who have been plunged into terrifying circumstances and responded with astonishing bravery. Many have forfeited their lives or their livelihoods for the sake of others. All have great stories to tell.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869404000
Kiwi Keith : A biography of Keith Holyoake
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NZ$ 60.00 each
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Author:
Barry Gustafson
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Our leading political biographer and author of the bestselling biography of Muldoon now writes a definitive life of another prime minister, Keith Holyoake. One of our great farming politicians, Holyoake was Prime Minister for over eleven years chiefly in the 1960s, Governor General from 1977 to 1980 and an MP for over 40 years. Though he was often derided as pompous and unprincipled, a master of consensus and compromise, Gustafson shows a man with astute understanding of people and political issues, skilled at defusing division and preserving order while encouraging gradual progress.He explores in depth Holyoake's performance as Minister of Foreign Affairs, his opposition to nuclear testing and his very reluctant commitment to assist the Americans in Vietnam. He shows his support of economic diversification and the strengthening of New Zealand's economy; of the liberalisation of the criminal law, of divorce laws, of licensing hours and ...
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9780958224215
More Grady's People
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Author:
Don Grady
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Don Grady, following on from the popular "Grady's People", has continued to unearth fascinating people during his travels throughout the top of the South Island. In "More Grady's People" he introduces over 30 new characters and their wonderful stories.
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9780958224239
Still More Grady's People
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Don Grady
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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 remarkable story of the Brownlee sawmilling empire established in 1864 at Blackball, near Havelock.
There is also the amazing story of Frank Delany, including his pioneering contributions to mussel farming and deer farming,
along with Chris Brown, a pioneer in the paua industry. Also featured are the entrepreneurial Fred Willetts, who has made and lost several fortunes, Jim Persson, Golden Bay's 'hobby' boatbuilder, and his brother Peter who used bras to ripen his hydroponic tomatoes. An account of Edith Shaw's involvement in the Mangarakau Swamp is included along with stories of the last of the men who worked on the ill-fated Nelson ...
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9780958277907
Wairau Bar Moa Hunter : the Jim Eyles Story
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NZ$ 45.00 each
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Author:
James R Eyles OBE
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The discovery of the ancient Moa-hunter burial sites at Wairau Bar in 1939 provided a new benchmark for archaeologists, ethnologists and anthropologists seeking to understand whose were the first footprints on New Zealand shores.
This is the autobiography of the man who found those burial sites as a 13 year old boy and spent the rest of his life exploring and discovering what lies under the soil.
Descended from Tory Channel whaler Jimmy Jackson, Jim Eyles was brought up at Wairau Bar. He worked for the Canterbury Museum and was director of the Nelson Museum and the West Coast Museum. This book includes farming, fishing, whaling, goldmining and family history, illustrated with historic photos from private albums.
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