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Kiwi Mustangs by Steve Holmes
$39.99 NZD
Category: Transport | Series: 1st
The Ford Mustang met with unprecedented popularity on its release in the US over 50 years ago in 1964, and nowhere is the marque more popular than here in New Zealand.Steve Holmes presents an outstanding full-colour selection of privately-owned models residing in New Zealand, and their owners, and he pr ...Show more
Make Her Praises Heard Afar: The Untold story of New Zealand Women in WW1 by Jane Tolerton
$59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military 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
Matariki: Te Whetu o te Tau by Rangi Matamua
$35.00 NZD
Category: Maori | Series: 1st | Reading Level: very good
Te Reo Māori edition. In mid-winter, Matariki rises in the pre-dawn sky, and its observation is celebrated with incantations on hilltops at dawn, balls, exhibitions, dinners and a vast number of events. The Matariki tradition has been re-established, and its regeneration coincides with a growing interes ...Show more
Patu: The New Zealand Wars by Gavin Bishop
$40.00 NZD
A large-format, stunning visual history of the New Zealand Wars of the 1800s, suitable for children and adults, by the multiple-award-winning Gavin BishopDiscover the key people, perspectives and battles of the New Zealand Wars in this powerfully told and richly illustrated visual history by Gavin Bisho ...Show more
Peacemonger: Owen Wilkes - International Peace Researcher by Edited by May Bass and Mark Derby
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Series: 1st
The life and work of outstanding New Zealand peace activist Owen Wilkes. Tributes from friends and associates. Born in Christchurch, Owen Wilkes was an internationalist and a dedicated New Zealander — a subsistence farmer on the West Coast (where his self-built eco-home was demolished by the local coun ...Show more
Retro Caravans: Vantastic Kiwi Collections by Don Jessen
$39.99 NZD
Category: Motor Cars | Series: 1st
The kiwi retro caravan craze is in full bloom - clear from the ever-increasing number of vans parked up at idyllic holiday spots, vans spotted at car events around the country, the magazines and online chatter on the subject, and a general yearning among the population for the sort of carefree holidayin ...Show more
Stories on the Four Winds: Nga hau e Wha by Brian Bargh; Robyn Bargh
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: 1st
This collection brings together twenty short stories from eighteen of New Zealand's accomplished writers. They explore the dark and dangerous milieu of our comfortable existence. There is humour, tenderness, surprise, anger, sorrow and abject desperation in these stories from the four winds.
Tangata Whenua - A History [text-only edition] by Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney, Aroha Harris
$49.99 NZD
Category: Maori | Series: 1st | Reading Level: very good
Tangata Whenua: A History presents a rich narrative of the Māori past from ancient origins in South China to the twenty-first century, in a handy paperback format. The authoritative text is drawn directly from the award-winning Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History; the full text of the big hardback is ...Show more
Te Kaieke Tohorā (The Whale Rider in te reo Maori) by Witi Ihimaera; Timoti Karetu i whakamaori
$26.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Māori | Series: 1st
Whakamiharo ana tera te tirohanga atu ki a ia, ki te kaieke tohora. I rere atu te wai i a ia, ka hamama tona waha kia taea ai te hau makariri te kupa iho. Ko ana karu e kohara ana i te ahurei. Korekoreko katoa ana te tinana i te rehu taimana. I runga i taua taniwha ano nei he tekoteko paku kua whakairot ...Show more
The New Zealand Wars | Nga Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O'Malley
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society | Series: 1st | Reading Level: near fine
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
The Raupo Book of Maori Proverbs by Aw Reed et al.
$28.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Māori | Series: 1st | Reading Level: Very Good
Proverbs (or whakatauki) express the wisdom, wit and commonsense of the Maori people. They are of great value and inspiration to writers, story-tellers and anyone speaking in a Maori setting. Several hundred proverbs are contained in The Raupo Book of Maori Proverbs, categorised under a large number of ...Show more
The Story of a Treaty / He Korero Tiriti (3rd edition) by Claudia Orange
$35.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Māori | Series: 1st
The Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a central document in New Zealand history. This lively account tells the story of the Treaty from its signing in 1840, through the debates and struggles of the nineteenth century, to the gathering political momentum of recent decades. The third edition of T ...Show more