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9780790011783
101 Incredible Kiwis
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Author:
Tony Williams
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This world beating book profiles an array of the best and most ingenious talent born and bred in New Zealand - it's an invaluable and entertaining record of local and global achievers who have all helped New Zealand compete at an international level across diverse industries such as engineering, fashion, computers, film, astronomy, music and the arts, wine making, business, toys, yachting, science, education and much more. Legendary Kiwi personalities such as Peter Blake, Richard Taylor (WETA), the Finn brothers, Brotha D, Phil Keoghan, Karen Walker, Zinzan Brooke, Bruce McLaren and Sam Morgan join some less well known names in a showcase of extraordinary inventiveness and innovation.
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9781877197369
A History of New Zealand Scows and Their Trades
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Author:
David Langdon
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This beautifully presented book describes the 140 New Zealand scows from the aspect of an essential part of the early, and definitive, mercantile development of New Zealand. It covers the contribution that they made to all aspects of the growth of the nation, it industry and society.
The book is the result of 15 years dedicated research and a lifetime of enthusiasm by author, David Langdon. It contains personal and family recollections, and many anecdotes recorded from scow sailors- capturing and recorded for posterity a formative era long passed.
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9781877333996
Always the Sound of the Sea : New Zealand Lighthouse Keepers' Lives
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Author:
Helen Beaglehole
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Lighthouses have a mystique, a romance, and an almost biblical significance about them. Elegant structures located on remote and exposed sites where the land is challenged by the sea, they beam light into the darkness and transform uncertainty into knowledge and safety. They are the subject of legends and yarns, shanties and poems, written and oral history around the world. New Zealand's lighthouses - their location, design, construction, operation and demanning - have been well documented in Helen Beaglehole's comprehensive history, Lighting the Coast. But the lives and work of the men and women behind the lights over the last 150 years deserves closer study. Why did they choose the life? What did the job entail from day to day and year to year? How did it change? How did they feel about their work? What were their fears, frustrations and rewards? In Always the Sound of the Sea, Helen Beaglehole again challenges the myths and the ...
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9780473145675
Anzacs at the Frontiers, 1941-45: Northern Italy (2 VOLUME SET)
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Author:
Ken Fenton
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These two volumes bring together "many fragments of history, commencing with the POW's experiences at Prison Camp 57, Gruppignano".
Before the Italian Armistace of September 1943, thousands of Kiwi and Australian soldiers were held in POW camps in Northern Italy.
This is a detailed and fascinating account of the ANZAC involvement in WW2 in Northern Italy.
What happened in northern Italy over the years from 1941 to 1945 affected the lives of thousands of New Zealand and Australian servicemen, caught up in the maelstrom of events that were taking place in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations. Ken Fenton has been able to draw on many recollections of Anzac ex-servicemen, along with his personal knowledge of northern Italy during World War 2, as a young soldier with the 2nd NZ Division. His two volumes give a detailed insight into the varied fortunes of those initially imprisoned, and into how escapers from among them ...
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9780473145682
Anzacs at the Frontiers 1941-45: Northern Italy (Volume 2)
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Author:
Ken Fenton
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What happened in northern Italy over the years from 1941 to 1945 affected the lives of thousands of New Zealand and Australian servicemen, caught up in the maelstrom of events that were taking place in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations. Ken Fenton has been able to draw on many recollections of Anzac ex-servicemen, along with his personal knowledge of northern Italy during World War 2, as a young soldier with the 2nd NZ Division. His two volumes give a detailed insight into the varied fortunes of those initially imprisoned, and into how escapers from among them later coped with the exigencies of war-torn Italy. They were confronted by many difficult situations resulting from the actions of the warring regimes. Before the Italian Armistice of September 1943, thousands of Aussies and Kiwis were held in the prisoner of war camps of northern Italy, particularly in the notorious Campo 57 at Gruppignano. There the physical and mental ...
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9780473117436
Arthur Elmslie & Anaru
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Author:
Oliver Sutherland
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This is the story of Arthur Elmslie, whaler and gentleman & Anaru, the farm at French Pass.
Published for the Webber family reunion and commemoration of 150th anniversary of 'Anaru', the farm at French Pass, January 2007.
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9781869660536
A-Z of Kiwi Fact and Folklore
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Author:
Gordon Ell
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273 pages
A brand new, fully revised edition of the best selling New Zealand Traditions and Folklore, first published in 1993,An A-Z of Kiwi Fact & Folklore covers more than 700 updated anecdotes, ideas and traditions that we share as New Zealanders, and which make us different from Australia, England and any other part of the English speaking world.
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9780473164713
Brighton - Its Boom & Bust
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Author:
Les Wright
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This book draws on a breadth of sources to bring back memories of the town, its goldfield and the range of characters who celebrated their successes, fled their failures, or simply stayed on to enjoy subsistence lifestyles in a magnificent environment.
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9781869620707
Chancers and Visionaries : A History Of Wine In New Zealand
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Author:
Stewart Keith
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Most people know about the impact of Dalmatian immigrants on our wine industry. Some may remember that in the 1820s vines were planted at various places in the Far North. But given how vital the industry is these days and how much attention our distinctive New World wines get from overseas judges, we are all surprisingly hazy about what happened in
between. How many New Zealanders know that had it not been for the Temperance movement and the aggression of the beer industry, we’d have had a thriving wine industry a century earlier than we did? How many know that if it weren’t for Catholic priests, winemaking may have died out altogether?
In this carefully researched, engagingly told history, well-known wine writer Keith Stewart uncovers the
fascinating history of wine in this country and highlights the remarkable characters who believed in it and
whose passion drove it forward, even in its darkest decades.
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9780908812530
Christchurch Changing : An Illustrated History (Revised Edition 2008)
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Author:
Geoffrey Rice
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This lively survey tells the story of a major New Zealand city, the capital of Canterbury province and the South Island's largest metropolitan centre. Why was the city established in the middle of a swamp? What was it like to live in Christchurch in the 1850s, the 1870s or the 1940s? What has changed, what has disappeared, and what has survived from the past? Who were the people who made Christchurch what it is today? What makes Christchurch distinctive among New Zealand's cities? These and many other questions are answered in this highly readable account.
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793573572318
Click - A Captured Moment: Marlborough's Early Heritage
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NZ$ 50.00 each
Author:
Marlborough Historical Society
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9780908573844
Denniston's Incline : Coal From the Clouds
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Author:
Bill Prebble
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The complete history and operation of Denniston's Incline.
With much new information and many previously unpublished photographs, this work details the incline and its supporting industries. Chapters include the history, functional operation of the incline, operation of the Conn's Creek branch railway, the people that made it work, rolling stock, Westport wharves, and the current attractions at Denniston today.
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9781869419257
Diggers, Hatters, Whores : The New Zealand Gold Rushes
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NZ$ 57.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Stevan Eldred-Grigg
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This is a first - a thorough and carefully researched history of the gold rushes in New Zealand - and it establishes a benchmark for future work on the history of the gold rushes. It's based on sound scholarship and aimed at the wide and growing general readership of those keen to know more about, and to weigh up, the history of New Zealand. The scope is the social history of the whole of the goldfields of the whole of colonial New Zealand from the 1850s to the 1870s. The early chapters of the main body will survey rushes chronologically. The later chapters will look at rushes thematically. Beautifully illustrated with sketches and watercolours of the times, this is both a wonderful read and a beautiful gift book.
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9781877514036
First to Care
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Paperback
Author:
Graeme Hunt
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St John is integral to New Zealand society, touching many lives with its ambulance service, and drawing on the admirable spirit of thousands of Kiwi volunteers.
Graeme Hunt details a fascinating history from St John's origins in the Crusades, to its 1885 founding in New Zealand (in Christchurch), to the subsequent ups and downs, developments and challenges, of the modern organisation. Illustrated with more than 250 photos, memorabilia and other images, this 'warts and all' history traverses every region of New Zealand, with extensive appendices including St John's roll of honour.
DoP October 2009, Auckland
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9781877257971
French Akaroa : An attempt to colonise southern New Zealand (2nd edition 2010)
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Author:
Peter Tremewan
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While the British were sending settlers to the North Island in 1840, the French were sending them to the South Island.
This book looks at the elaborate French government-backed plans to settle and annex 'Southern New Zealand' - and at
what the French did when they found the British had got there first.
The lives of the French (and German) men, women and children who ended up creating little settlements in Akaroa Harbour is a major focus of this fascinating book, which also explains some of the French heritage that attracts so many tourists to the Banks Peninsula town of Akaroa today.
Originally published in 1990, this second edition has been extensively updated and enlarged.
First published 1990; this 2nd edition June 2010.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781877448775
Giving the Devil His Due : Demonology and the Christchurch Civic Creche Case
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Kenneth Bragan
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The Christchurch Civic Creche case in which Peter Ellis was convicted of the sexual abuse of children in his care, smoulders in the public mind. Was justice done? Did demonic fears influence the judgement of professionals and others involved? Did scapegoating play a part? Important questions - because false accusations damage the innocent, feed public hysteria and affect many lives. There were many dark sides to the Civic Creche case; this book deepens our understanding of why it all happened, so such events are less likely to occur again.
First published October 2009.
Paperback 144pp h210mm x w148mm
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9780959797442
Gold in a Tin Dish Volume 1
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NZ$ 90.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Mike Johnston
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The History of the Wakamarina Goldfield
In a narrow valley about midway between the towns of Nelson and Blenheim, New Zealand, gold was found in 1864 by settlers prospecting the gravel bar at Wilson's Beach, on the Wakamarina River. Canvas towns sprang up along the valley, populated with goldminers and their followers, but the Wakamarina was never a large goldfield, by area or yield, so whilst a few claims paid very well indeed, most camps appeared and disappeared in a short time.
This is the goldfield associated with the most infamous crime of the times - the robbery and murder of five Wakamarina men on the Maungatapu Track to Nelson.
In this book Mike Johnston has compiled an entirely fresh and full history of this famous goldfield.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780959797459
Gold in a Tin Dish Volume 2
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NZ$ 80.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Mike Johnston
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The History of the Eastern Marlborough Goldfields
Historian and geologist Mike Johnston completes the account of the region's goldmining history that he began in Volume One with the Wakamarina. He describes the tantalising nature of Eastern Marlborough gold and the dogged attempts to extract it, despite the area's rugged landscape, dense forests, frequent floods and muddy tracks - and often poor returns.
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9781877460142
High Country Lark : An Invitation to Paradise
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NZ$ 45.00 each
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Author:
Neville Peat
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The New Zealand high country holds a special place for us all: it's New Zealand's equivalent of the 'Wild West': a rugged, rustic, spectacularly beautiful frontier. The relationship we have with the hills, mountains and lakes resonants within us all when we hear the words HIGH COUNTRY. Its steep mountains, tumbling rivers, moss-bedecked beech forest, and snow and ice in high places speak of 'a mountain fastness and wilderness dramatically arrayed' - we call it 'Middle Earth'. The characters who roamed the hills, old prospectors like Arawata Bill, are like our own Jessie James or Kit Carson. It ought to be a haven for wildlife: for the mischievous kea and for the haunting song of the kakapo. Author Neville Peat takes us into the Head of the Lake area - that's head of Lake Wakatipu. Into Paradise - yes it's a real place - up the Rees Valley, into the Dart, the Greenstone and Caples valleys. We roam the hills and meet up with the Lark, an ...
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9780143203841
Home : Civilian New Zealanders Remember the Second World War
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Author:
Alison Parr
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While their loved ones left to serve overseas, most New Zealanders spent the Second World War at home. This book tells the stories of those who stayed behind. Based on frank, in-depth interviews,
Home
reveals the reality of civilian wartime life in New Zealand during the watershed years from 1939 to 1945. Women and men remember, with disarming honesty, the experiences that unfolded for them, including chronic uncertainty, the fear of enemy invasion, the deprivations that came with rationing, and the intensity of wartime romantic relationships. Some took a pacifist stand, against the patriotic tide; others hid their embarrassment when they were excluded from military service. Most lived with the ongoing anxiety of long-distance separation from loved ones. Many endured the inevitable grief of loss. Moving, funny, heartfelt and often surprising, these are memories of ordinary lives lived in extraordinary times.
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9781869711559
How We Saw The War: 1938-1945 Through New Zealand Eyes
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Author:
Ron Palenski
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The story of World War two told through the eyes of New Zealand media. Palenski revisits newspapers and other media, revealing the "unique experiences of Kiwis and milestones during the war".
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9781869418984
I Was A Plunket Baby : 100 Years of the Royal New Zealand Plunket Society (Inc)
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Jim Sullivan
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PLUNKET - the very word is a New Zealand icon.
This book tells the story of the first hundred years of the Royal New Zealand Plunket Society, from 1907 when the infant death rate was appallingly high through to 2007. Along the way skirmishes with the Department of Health, the politicians and even, in the early days, the medical profession, have all been part of Plunket's battleground. Through all this, Plunket has readily adapted to the need for change and nurses and volunteers have continued to care for over 90% of New Zealand infants. Plunket volunteers have created an organisation in which nurses and mothers are the controllers of their own destiny and a legacy for all New Zealanders, almost all of whom can make the claim,
"I was a Plunket baby!"
The text is detailed and includes extracts from official documents and personal recollections, along with a wealth of illustrations to portray this dramatic century.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781877517198
Kahurangi Calling: Stories From the Backcountry of Northwest Nelson
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Author:
Gerard Hindmarsh
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Kahurangi National Park gathers in a huge area of wilderness in the top northwest corner of the South Island, stretching west from Nelson in an endless maze of forested mountains and valleys to the rugged and wild West Coast, running out from Golden Bay down to Karamea. This area has an astonishing ecological complexity, so it is perhaps not surprising that this landscape has also generated a wonderfully rich and colourful human history. For well over 20 years Golden Bay author Gerard Hindmarsh has been collecting stories from Kahurangi and in this book he has woven the best of them into a fascinating blend of natural and social history. In
Kahurangi Calling
he describes many of the ecological treasures that are found in Kahurangi, but also tells the stories about the fascinating characters that have travelled and lived here: explorers, miners, graziers, trampers and other adventurers, eelers, hermits and many others. This is a ...
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9781877372407
Ka Taoka Hakena : Treasures from the Hocken Collections
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NZ$ 65.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Stuart Strachan & Linda Tyler (eds)
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Published to celebrate the centenary of its foundation, this book introduces and samples the Hocken's principal collections. There are many outstanding items in these collections, including significant holdings of twentieth-century New Zealand art, early New Zealand manuscripts, maps and publications, early Australian manuscripts and many other items of great interest.
First published October 2007.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780908608195
Kauri Past and Present
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NZ$ 22.00 each
Paperback
Author:
ELL, Gordon
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781877270918
Lane Walker Rudkin : 100 Years In The Making
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NZ$ 50.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Felicity Price
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From hand-knitted socks to army uniforms, from lingerie to rugby jerseys to corporate uniforms, Lane Walker Rudkin has been clothing New Zealanders for over 100 years. Be it Jockey underwear or Canterbury outerwear, the LWR brands are familiar to all of us.
Lane Walker Rudkin : 100 Years In The Making
not only commemorates 100 years of the Lane Walker Rudkin enterprise but reflects the chequered history of New Zealand's business climate as well as changes in technology and fashion. It is the story of the Lanes, the Walkers and the Rudkins, the machinists on the factory floor, the famous sporting stars - such as Colin Meads, Don Clark, Chris Cairns and Jonah Lomu - who have worn the Canterbury brand jersey with pride, and the sporting models - like Zinzan Brook, Paul McDonald and Rachel Hunter - who have stripped down to their underwear to flaunt the latest Jockey or Liberty style.
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9780908561902
Last of the Whalers
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Author:
Heather Heberley
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It is the story of her father-in-law, Charlie Heberley, himself the descendant of one of New Zealand's very first whalers, Captain James "Worser" Heberley who whaled out of Tory Channel in the 1830s.
The story of Charlie and his mates is of a breed of men - rough, tough, and sustained by a code of honour - who will never be seen again.
Long before his death in 2000, Charlie Heberley became a fervent conservationist, blasting those countries which still persist in unbridled whaling under the guise of "research". But, in his time, Charlie was an acknowledged leader in this rough, tough and dangerous occupation.
Charlie married Ruby Guard, the descendent of John Guard who was the first white child to be born in the South Island, and they made their home at Okukari in Tory Channel, the farming-fishing base where Heather Heberley and her family live. Here, from "the first house on the right in the South Island", Heather has set all or ...
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9781869621346
Mates and Lovers : A History of Gay New Zealand
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NZ$ 50.00 each
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Author:
Chris Brickell
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New Zealand Society of Authors E.H. McCormick Best First book Award for Non-fiction Winner
What are the historical changes through which the modern New Zealand 'gay man' has emerged? If he has not always been with us, then who preceded him?
University of Otago academic Dr Chris Brickell tells the evolving history of New Zealand gay men accessibly, through the lives of individual clerks, labourers, gardeners, soldiers, actors, writers; working class and middle class men; mostly urban but sometimes rural or small-town men. A landmark publication, this first-ever New Zealand gay male history combines lively, engaging scholarship with a remarkable collection of just under 300 images, spanning the book's period: 1830 to 1980. Written for an intelligent general, rather than an academic audience, Mates and Lovers aims to tell interesting stories along the way. The 130-odd images are integral to the stories of the text, and ...
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9780958264556
Mr & Mrs U** : the story of a high country marriage in early Canterbury
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Author:
Audrey Adams
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REPRINTED 2009
Through their letters to his native Shropshire in England between 1865 and 1902 Everard Upton and his wife, Eunice Adams, speak to us of the tribulations, but also of the pleasures, of life on remote country sheep stations in the early years of the European settlement of Canterbury. These letters vividly describe what it was like to live, work and raise children in the high country of Canterbury during the early years of settlement. They also tell the history of a marriage that had an ignominious end.
Mr & Mrs U** is a virtual 'who's who' of Canterbury and with its detailed information and many illustrations, will appeal to family and social historians.
300 pages
240 x 170mm
First published September 2007.
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9780908714100
Mungo Park's Trunk : A journey - Scotland to New Zealand
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NZ$ 49.00 each
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Author:
Nola Easdale
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The surveyor Robert Park arrived in New Zealand in 1839. He became a notable figure in New Zealand's public life and has an important place in the history of surveying in New Zealand and a place in the history of New Zealand art.
He also fathered three families. In Mungo Park's Trunk, Nola Easdale teases apart the complexities of Robert Park's personal life and traces the histories of his children and their children in turn. In the course of doing so she also solves the puzzle of how a trunk that once belonged to the great Scottish West African explorer, Mungo Park, ended up in the possession of a Maori family in Petone, New Zealand.
This is a fascinating history of a complex family that casts revealing light on many curious aspects of New Zealand's 19th and 20th century history.
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9780986452239
Myth New Zealand : Whatever happened to number 8 wire, eighty million sheep, a good keen man, the pavlova and the greatest place in the world to bring up kids?
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NZ$ 39.99 each
Mixed-media pack
Author:
Justin Brown
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Whatever happened to number 8 fencing wire, eighty million sheep, a good keen man, and the pavlova? Some popular myths, supposedly at the heart of the New Zealand psyche, are put through a 21st century reality check in this hilarious and thought-provoking look at modern New Zealand.
The book includes a CD of original songs by the author.
First published July 2010.
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9780908561551
Nelson: A Regional History
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NZ$ 50.00 each
Hardback
Author:
James McAloon
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The definitive history of the Nelson region (Hardback).
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9780959797466
Nelson's First Railway and the City Bus
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NZ$ 30.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Mike Johnston
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A history of the Dun Mountain Railway, which gave access to several of the copper and chromite mines east of Nelson city, and a passenger service known as the Dun Mountain (or City) bus operated on the same line between the city centre and Port Nelson.
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9780958299718
New Zealand Birth Certificates: 50 of New Zealand's Founding Documents
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Paul Moon
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A nation is founded and develops just as people are born and grow. New Zealand has since the Treaty of Waitangi marked its development with its own kind of birth certificates - documents, treaties, pou whenua, maps, declarations of war and national anthems.
New Zealand Birth Certificates
plants 50 of the most prominent signposts to New Zealand history in a coherent, stimulating sequence. Each has a one-page summary, mirrored in quality reproductions of the actual documents, plus related paintings and photographs. Helping define who we are, telling the story of our nation in a vivid and memorable way,
New Zealand Birth Certificates
is a book to browse, study, consult and enjoy. Founding documents and landmarks reproduced include:
• Cook’s Map (1772)
• Maori (1867) and women (1893) gaining the vote
• New Zealand flag (1902)
• National Anthem (1977)
• South Pacific Nuclear Free Treaty (1985)
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9781869341091
New Zealand Portrait of a Nation
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Author:
Graham Stewart
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9781869710934
New Zealand Shipwrecks : Over 200 years of disasters at sea
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NZ$ 50.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Diggle & Gordon
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Since the publication of the first edition in 1936, New Zealand Shipwrecks has been the authority on maritime disasters in our waters. This hugely readable reference records the details of more than 2200 shipwrecks and highlights those of special significance and drama, telling exciting tales of daring, bravery or treasure never found. An indispensable record of a fascinating aspect of New Zealand's maritime history. This 8th edition includes 245 new entries as well as updated information on many wrecks.
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9780958245562
New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers (2008 edition)
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NZ$ 50.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Joseph Romanos
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The definitive New Zealand's Top 100 History-Makers, which profiles the people who have shaped New Zealand, is staggering in its scope.The 100 people profiled by author Joseph Romanos range from politicians and inventors to musicians and sports stars: New Zealand’s icons, including Edmund Hillary, Kate Sheppard, Jean Batten, Apirana Ngata and Ernest Rutherford, are all there. The early years of New Zealand’s history are well covered, through the stories of such people as Hone Heke and Samuel Marsden.So are more recent achievers like Neil and Tim Finn, Michael King and Billy T James.
First published July 2008, NZ
244pp/A-4
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781921569241
New Zealand's Yesterdays : The Illustrated Story of How We Lived, Worked and Played
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Author:
Readers Digest
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First published by "Reader's Digest" in 1984, this edition has been revised and redesigned. The enormous changes which took place in all aspects of New Zealand life in the twentieth century are laid out in this archive, presented in an accessible way. A book for all ages, this text provides insights into a country totally transformed by new ideas, war, technological revolution and political awakening as an independent nation.
Contents: God's own country; living in towns; living in the country; making ends meet; arts and entertainment; attitudes and fashions; cradle to grave; shrinking the distance; keeping home fires burning; leisure and sport.
Hardback 320pp h312mm x w232mm 550 drawings, photographs and illustrations
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781877448690
No Job Too Big: A History of Fletcher Construction (Vol. I 1909-1940)
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NZ$ 44.99 each
Hardback
Author:
Jack (John Goodwin) Smith
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DoP August 2009, Auckland
260x210mm / 342pp
Hardcover
The first of three volumes on an outstanding New Zealand company, this book covers the period 1909-40 and focuses on the work for which Fletcher Construction Co. Ltd, with its tower cranes constructing buildings and its bulldozers on civil engineering projects all around the country, is widely known and recognised.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780143006510
Old South : Life and Times in the Nineteenth-Century Mainland
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Author:
Matthew Wright
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A lively new illustrated history of New Zealand's South Island, Old South tells a story of triumphs, tragedies and earnest hopes. It covers early Maori-Pakeha conflict, the Wairau Affair, colonial settlement planned and unplanned, the Gold Rush, the growth of farming and the pastoral elite, and the development of towns and cities. Wright, a noted and prolific historian, paints a vibrant picture of mainland life from the 1840s. In particular, he focuses on the rise and fall of the first privately founded Pakeha settlements with their hopeful framework of social idealism, business enterprise and religious conviction. As history shows, they were doomed before they began, overwhelmed by the developing southern frontier - a colourful, vigorous world of gold and wool, of social climbers, would-be aristocrats and ambitious ne'er-do-wells.
First published September 2009, Auckland
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