The Team That Hit the Rocks: The Inside Story of the Wahine Disaster by Peter Jerram
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
In April 1968 the New Zealand interisland passenger ferry Wahine, a fast and modern ship for its time, hit Barrett Reef at the entrance to Wellington Harbour in a cyclone, the worst storm ever recorded in New Zealand's history. Six and a half hours later the ship heeled over and sank, with the eventual ...Show more
Living Between Land & Sea - The Bays of Whakaraupo Lyttelton Harbour by Jane Robertson
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
This superbly illustrated history of the people who settled in the many bays of Whakaraup/Lyttelton Harbour is full of finely observed insights into the challengesof living in small, remote communities. Acknowledging the rich history of Te Hapu o Ngāti Wheke and their guardianship of this place, the bo ...Show more
1970s: Decade of Protest by Editorial Team at Steele Roberts
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
The 1970s saw unprecedented numbers of people take to the streets to protest against injustice and for the environment, gay rights, housing, Māori land and language, women’s rights, workers’ wages and conditions — and to end apartheid, racism and war. This book salutes the people whose radical a ...Show more
Make Her Praises Heard Afar: The Untold story of New Zealand Women in WW1 by Jane Tolerton
$30.00 NZD
$60.00 (50% off)
Category: NZ History | Series: 1st | Reading Level: very good
The history books tell us that about 550 New Zealand nurses went to World War One while other women stayed home, knitting, fundraising and looking after families and farms while the men were away. But many women went too, as doctors and ambulance drivers, munitions workers and mathematicians, civil serv ...Show more
Kiwis and Cortinas by Gordon Campbell
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
There was a time when every New Zealander either owned a Ford Cortina or had a parent, sister, brother, grandparent or friend who did. While we can’t claim these hugely popular cars as our own, the Cortina’s place in New Zealand motoring history makes it something of a Kiwi cultural icon. This book cele ...Show more
The Crewe Murders: Inside New Zealand’s Most Infamous Cold Case by Kirsty Johnston, James Hollings
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
The unsolved mystery of who killed Jeanette and Harvey Crewe in their Pukekawa farmhouse in 1970 continues to fascinate. It remains one of the most controversial cases in New Zealand legal history. The murders spawned two trials, two appeals, several books, a royal commission, a film, and - eventually - ...Show more
Vikings of the Sunrise by Te Rangi Hiroa; Paora Tapihana (Foreword by)
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
One of the greatest books ever written about the peopling of the Pacific, Te Rangi Hiroa's masterpiece interweaves oral history, scholarship and personal reflections to recount the movements of seafarers from East Asia to the furthest corners of Polynesia. Out of print for many decades, Vikings of the S ...Show more
Titus Angus White & the Maori Captives on Waitemata Harbour 1863/4 by Barbara Francis
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
In November 1863 at the battle of Rangiriri, over 180 Māori defenders were taken prisoner. They were marched up the Great South Road to Ōtāhuhu, from where they were transferred onto the Waitematā Harbour. There they were held captive on the prison ship Marion for nearly eight months, supervised by thei ...Show more
The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand by Michael King
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
This bestselling book by the late Michael King is the unchallenged contemporary reference on the history of New Zealand. First published in 2003 and hailed as a triumph of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, it has been continuously in print for twenty years and has sold over 300,00 ...Show more
Days of Darkness: Taranaki, 1878-1884 by Hazel Riseborough
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: 1st
The narrative of the Parihaka community sheds light on a critical period in Aotearoa’s colonial past. As the government seized their land, Māori communities across the region engaged in non-violent resistance, with Parihaka emerging as a powerful symbol of defiance under the leadership of Te Whiti o Ron ...Show more
Gangster's Paradise by Jared Savage
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
The much anticipated follow-up to the bestseller that exposed the escalation of organised crime in New Zealand. Gangster's Paradise is about drugs, guns, gangs and money. Lots of money. A gang which took over a small rural town. A police officer shot and killed in a routine traffic stop. A port-worker ...Show more