Wildflower City: Wellington New Zealand by Cobbett, William

$25.00 NZD

Category: Natural History | Reading Level: Very Good

Etiquette and Elbowgrease: Housekeeping in Victorian New Zealand by Miriam Macgregor

$25.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

One of the best accounts of colonial domestic science. Kitchen, laundry, clothing, medicine and other domestic pursuits. An account of Maori cures. Many illustrations of machinery and tools, cookware etc.

Stories Men Tell - New Zealand Men Talk About Their Lives by John Keir

$16.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

Extraordinary stories. And ordinary stories. Stories rarely told by men. Revealing. Insightful. Honest. For 50 years the Atrium Club has operated as a gym for men only. But the Atrium is like no other gym. It's a club -- unashamedly a safe haven for an unlikely mix of gentlemen; a place for mind and bod y where the relationships and the camaraderie are as important as the exercise. The members include rich listers as well as those down on their luck; knights of the realm; sports stars; leaders in the fields of business, industry, medicine, law, academia, military and the media. Many have unique connections to the issues of our times. One man spent his childhood in a Japanese POW camp, another flew the first New Zealand troops into Vietnam, one was sued by David Lange for defamation, another played cricket for New Zealand, one helped save Sir Edmund Hillary on Mt Everest, another lost a child to terrorism in the 2005 London bombings, and one walked away from a horrific plane crash. ...Show more

The Years Before Waitangi: a Story of Early Maori European Contact in New Zealand by Patricia Bawden

$20.00 NZD

Category: Maori | Reading Level: good

In The Years Before Waitangi the author brings together material from letters, journals and books written by early European visitors to these shores - detailed accounts of what those people saw and experienced - to give the reader a glimpse of the culture and life-style of Maori and Europeans in New Zea land prior to the Treaty of Waitangi. ...Show more

Pakeha: the Quest for Identitiy in New Zealand by Filer, David

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: Very Good

Pulpit Radical - The Story of New Zealand Social Campaigner Rutherford Waddell by Ian Dougherty

$25.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: new

Pulpit Radical tells the story of one of New Zealand's most influential social campaigners. From his base as a Presbyterian minister in Dunedin, Rutherford Waddell immersed himself in all manner of causes, most notable in campaigning against the miserable plight of women in the clothing industry, which led to major changes to industrial legislation. Although Waddell's views on subjects such as eugenics and prohibition find little contemporary favour, his campaigning on issues such as poverty and inequality remains relevant today. ...Show more

Black Boots - New Zealand Rugby Legends by Phill Gifford; Barry Durrant

$25.00 NZD

Category: NZ Sport History | Reading Level: new

Over 200 photographs from a classic era of NZ rugby - 1950s-early 1990s, many unusual images from behind the scenes. Fascinating (and funny) captions from renowned rugby writer Phil Gifford. Perfect gift for the nostalgia-loving rugby fan - will bring back many great memories of AB greats and tours.

I Have Loved Me a Man by Mazer Sharon

$20.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine

From the Old Mill Disco in Timaru to San Francisco's ACT UP protests, through Jazzercise and drag, AIDS and homosexual law reform, I Have Loved Me a Man takes readers inside the social revolution that has moved New Zealand from the 1960s to the present day through the story of the one, the only, queer M aori performance artist: Mika. Mika grew up in Timaru, was adopted into a white family, and learnt Maori culture from the back of a cereal box. He discovered disco in the 1970s, worked with Carmen, Dalvanius Prime, Merata Mita and others to develop outrageous stage shows that toured the world, played a policeman on television in Shark in the Park and came out on screen with Harvey Keitel, playing a takatapui role in Jane Campion's Academy Award-winning film The Piano. Mika has never been in the closet: his life has been an ongoing production of both the fabulous and the revolutionary. This highly visual book interweaves archival and historical research with images hand-picked from Mika's extensive archive to reveal the life and times of a queer brown boy from Aotearoa who took on the big white world. ...Show more

Fiordland by Jack McClenaghan

$25.00 NZD

Category: Regional | Reading Level: very good

Two Worlds - First Meetings between Maori and Europeans 1642-1772 by Anne Salmond

$65.00 NZD

Category: Maori | Reading Level: very good

Two Worlds is Anne Salmond's ward-winning account of the first points of contact between Maori and European explorers. It is a provocative, penetrating re-examination of those dramatic first meetings, casting them in a completely new light. Two Worlds is a work of trail-blazing significance. Two Worlds won the non-fiction section of the 1992 New Zealand Book Awards and was awarded third prize in the 1992 Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards. Anne Salmond received the 1990-91 Ernest Scott Prize, awarded by the University of Melbourne, for Two Worlds. ...Show more

Makers of Fortune - A Colonial Business Community and Its Fall by R. C. J. Stone

$25.00 NZD

Category: History | Reading Level: good

So many businesses rose and fell in 19th-century Auckland that the city was called a graveyard of enterprise. Through contemporary newspapers and business and legal records Dr Stone has traced a story of the fates of individual industries, firms and entrepreneurs.

Maori Origins and Migrations - The Genesis of Some Pakeha Myths and Legends by M P K Sorrenson

$15.00 NZD

Category: Maori | Reading Level: good

Since Europeans first set foot in New Zealand they have speculated about where the M�?ori people came from, how they made their way to New Zealand and how they lived when they arrived here. Theories have abounded: some of them have hardened into accepted truth. The result has been an accumulation of Pake ha myths about M�?ori origins. The process of this mythmaking is the subject of Sorrenson's book: 'It is not an attempt to find an original or even a Pacific homeland for the M�?ori. I leave that task to the many others who are happily engaged on it.' But as a study of the development of ideas, this book is both fascinating and salutary. ...Show more