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In Defence of Our Land : A Tour of New Zealand's Historic Harbour Forts
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Russell Glackin
The harbour forts of New Zealand occupy some of the grandest real estate in the country, yet little is known of the of what went into their construction. Highly illustrated with archival photos, maps and site plans, this easy-to-follow book is full of fascinating stories about New Zealand's wartime fort construction, of relics that now help form the character of many of our major harbour settlements, and of a time when the possibility of enemy warships in our waters was real.
Conversion and Civilisation of the Maories of the far south of New Zealand
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The Penguin History of New Zealand
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Michael King
Shortlisted for the 2004 Montana NZ Book Awards, History section.
New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and the conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and more rapidly in New Zealand than anywhere else on Earth.
The Penguin History of New Zealand
, a new book for a new century, tells that story in all its colour and drama. The narrative that emerges is an inclusive one about men and women, Maori and Pakeha. It shows that British motives in colonising New Zealand were essentially humane: and that Maori, far from being victims of "fatal impact", coped heroically with colonisation and survived by selectively accepting and adapting what Western technology and culture had to offer.
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Always the Sound of the Sea : New Zealand Lighthouse Keepers' Lives
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Helen Beaglehole
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?
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Always the Sound of the Sea
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A Short History of New Zealand, A (revised edition 2009)
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Gordon McLauchlan
This highly regarded book has been in print since 2004 and has proved popular with tourists, students and ordinary New Zealanders as a lively and reliable short history of New Zealand. It has proved a handy and succinct alternative to bigger books such as Michael King's The Penguin History of New Zealand. The timeline at the end of the book has proved particularly popular. Gordon McLauchlan has been assiduously reading New Zealand history, biography and fiction for more than fifty years. He knows New Zealand as intimately and affectionately as anyone alive and has set out in this updated edition of A Short History of New Zealand to provide for the general reader an historical narrative that is personal and colourful, and stamped with the authority of a lifetime of deep interest. This revised edition includes events since the turn of the twenty-first century, including the results of the 2008 General Election.
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As Others See Us
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Ian Dougherty
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Awesome Aotearoa : Margaret Mahy's History of New Zealand
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Margaret Mahy Illustrated by Trace Hodgson)
"New Zealand is an adventurous country...we have forests and rocky beaches. We have earthquakes and volcanoes, and pools of boiling mud and we also have the All Blacks. Earthquakes, boiling mud and rugby players! Who could wish for more?" With one of the world's most successful children's authors joining forces with an award-winning cartoonist, our history has never been more compelling, more engaging or more smirk-inducing. A fact-filled and delightful look at our country. Whoever said our history was boring?
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Blood Brothers: The Birth of the Anzacs
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Jeff Hopkins-Weise
This is a ground-breaking and sure to be controversial work that highlights, for the first time in detail, the story of how the New Zealand Land Wars of the 19th century were the true birthplace of an Australian and New Zealand military tradition that would become known as the ANZAC legend.
This book shows how the military, social and economic brotherhood that is the ANZAC legend began not on the sandy beaches of Gallipoli but 50 years earlier in the damp forests and fields of the North Island of New Zealand. By the middle of the 19th century, the very existence of the European colonial settlement in New Zealand was threatened. But while Queen Victoria's Britain engaged in more important wars elsewhere, for example the Crimea, the New Zealand colony became totally dependant on its sister colonial states in Australia for military materials, manpower, logistical, financial and humanitarian support. This set in motion events ...
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Captain Cook : Obsession and Betrayal in the New World
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Vanessa Collingridge
A uniquely woven story encompassing three separate centuries and three different lives.Captain Cook, best known for his heroic voyages through the Pacific Ocean, is brought to life in vivid detail. We follow his humble beginnings as the son of a farm labourer to his convention shattering treatment of the indigenous groups he met on his travels and then on to his final tragic voyage which signalled the end of his revered reputation. Almost a hundred years later another man catches a boat to Australia. Like Cook, George Collingridge, aristocrat and artist, is seeking adventure - and like Cook, it proved to be his undoing.
His journey leads him to old maps of early explorers, to secret tales of hidden lands and buried treasure. It leads him to the real discoverers of Australia - the Portuguese. He stakes his reputation on the claim and loses it. His life is ruined by his obsession. Another hundred years later Vanessa Collingridge ...
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Captain Cook : Voyager between two worlds
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John Gascoigne
Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer, but in many ways was also a representative of English attitudes in the eighteenth century. In his voyages, he came across peoples with hugely different systems of thought, belief and culture.
Born in North Yorkshire in 1728, he entered the world of the peoples of the South Pacific. The gulf between the two cultures was not nearly as vast as it was a century later, when ships made of metal and powered by steam were able to expand and enforce European Empires. In their different ways, both the British and the peoples of the Pacific had to battle the seas and its moods with timber vessels powered by sail and human muscle.
John Gascoigne focuses on what happened when the two systems met, and how each side interpreted the other in terms of their own beliefs and experiences.
First published 2007.
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