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Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story by Gavin Bishop
$40.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books
Over a thousand years ago, the wind, sea currents and stars brought people to the islands that became known as Aotearoa, the land of the long white cloud. Navigate your way through this sumptuously illustrated story of New Zealand. Explore the defining moments of our history, captured by celebrated chil ...Show more
Tears of Rangi - Experiments Across Worlds (PB) by Anne Salmond
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History/Society
Six centuries ago Polynesian explorers arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand, where they rapidly adapted to new plants, animals, landscapes, and climatic conditions. Four centuries later, European explorers arrived with maps and clocks, grids and fences, and they too adapted to a new island home. In this remo ...Show more
The New Zealand Wars | Nga Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O'Malley
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History/Society
The New Zealand Wars were a series of conflicts that profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nations history. Fought between the Crown and various groups of Maori between 1845 and 1872, the wars touched many aspects of life in nineteenth century New Zealand, even in those regions spared actual ...Show more
Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook by Alice Te Punga Somerville
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ History/Society
"Alice Te Punga Somerville employs her deep research and dark humour to skilfully channel her response to Cook's global colonial legacy"--Back cover.
Ko Aotearoa Tātou / We Are New Zealand - An Anthology by Michelle Elvy (Edited by), Paula Morris (Edited by), James Norcliffe (Edited by)
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History/Society
In the aftermath of the Christchurch terrorist attacks of 15 March 2019, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared: 'We are all New Zealanders.' These words resonated, an instant meme that asserted our national diversity and inclusiveness and, at the same time, issued a rebuke to hatred and divisiveness. K ...Show more
We Are Here: An Atlas of Aotearoa by Chris McDowall & Tim Denee
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ History/Society
An extraordinary visual data book like no other. Clustered yet scattered, we New Zealanders live across the country's physical landscapes, experiencing its varied weather and environments. We co-create its political, economic and social systems on a daily basis. Each of us has a particular view of Aotea ...Show more
Searching for Charlie: In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham VC and Bar by Tom Scott
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History/Society
Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham is the only combat soldier ever to win the Victoria Cross twice. His acts of bravery in World War II meant he probably deserved six more. The mystery of how a reserved, modest, slightly built farm valuer from New Zealand, could be so ferocious and fearless in battle has i ...Show more
The Political Years by Marilyn Waring
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History/Society
"When I entered Parliament in 1975, I joined a very small club: although women in New Zealand won the right to vote in 1893, only a tiny handful had been Members of Parliament in the hundred or so years that followed. I was number 15!" In 1975, Marilyn Waring was elected to the New Zealand Parliament a ...Show more
The Penguin History of New Zealand (2nd Edition) by Michael King
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ History/Society
This bestselling book, the triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, is the unchallenged contemporary reference to the history of New Zealand. New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce f ...Show more
Haerenga : Early Maori Journeys Across the Globe (BWB Texts) by O Malley V.
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ History/Society | Series: BWB Texts
Māori and Europeans were encountering one another for the first time not just along the shorelines of New Zealand but also on the streets of Melbourne, Liverpool and New York. From the late eighteenth century, Māori travellers spread out from New Zealand across the globe. They travelled for a variety o ...Show more
Pioneer Women by Sarah Ell
$15.00 NZD
$30.00 (50% off)
Category: NZ History/Society
The first two books in The NZ Series give a new take on New Zealand society, history, science and geography. Here is a snappily designed and fact-packed collection for intermediate and high-school age readers. Pioneer Women captures the experiences of European women who settled in New Zealand in the nin ...Show more
Driving To Treblinka: A Long Search for a Lost Father by Diana Wichtel
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History/Society
A Winner in Ockhams New Zealand Book Awards - Both the Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction 2018, and Best First Book Award for General Non-Fiction 2018. As a young child Diana Wichtel is brought up in Vancouver, Canada. Her mother is a Catholic New Zealander, her father a Polish Jew ...Show more