A Short History of New Zealand by Gordon McLauchlan
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
A new edition of the bestselling short history on New Zealand, updated to include the Helen Clark years, the rise of John Key, the Christchurch earthquakes and the 2011 Rugby World Cup! A lively and accessible history written by one of our most well-known commentators on matters past and present. Succin ...Show more
The Story of a Treaty / He Korero Tiriti (3rd edition) by Claudia Orange
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | 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
The Treaty of Waitangi | Te Tiriti o Waitangi: an Illustrated History by Claudia Orange
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Claudia Orange's writing on the Treaty of Waitangi has played a central role in national understanding of this foundational document. This fully revised and updated edition (previously entitled An Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi) brings the Treaty's history to life with a richly informativ ...Show more
Aotearoa Lost Worlds by Dave Gunson
20.00 NZD
Category: Dinosaurs
Aotearoa New Zealand has changed dramatically in its size and nature throughout prehistory. It has also seen a great diversity of animals and plants - dinosaurs, great sea reptiles, the largest-ever bird of prey, supergiant penguins, crocodiles, early mammals and giant moa - most of them unique to these ...Show more
Titanic by DK
24.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: DK Eyewitness
A picture-packed guide to the Titanic, from its incredible construction, catastrophic sinking, and lasting legacy Travel back to the year 1912 and experience the tragic tale of the world's most famous and luxurious liner. This book tells the story of Titanic's fateful maiden voyage from Southampton, UK, ...Show more
The Queen's Wardrobe by Julia Golding
23.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
The story of Queen Elizabeth II, who famously said 'if I wore beige, no one would know who I was', told through her clothes and jewellery. The Queen's Wardrobe is a gorgeous gift to treasure, celebrating a long life devoted to service. This book tells the story of a young princess who grew into one of t ...Show more
Fragments from a Contested Past (BWB Texts) by Joanna Kidman, Vincent O'Malley, Liana MacDonald, Tom Roa and Keziah Wallis
15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
‘What a nation or society chooses to remember and forget speaks to its contemporary priorities and sense of identity. Understanding how that process works enables us to better imagine a future with a different, or wider, set of priorities.’ History has rarely felt more topical or relevant as, all acros ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Rise and Fall of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
33.00 NZD
Category: History
'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India - A book of beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected ...Show more
Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker
28.00 NZD
Category: General Graphic Books | Series: Graphic Guides
Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in ...Show more
Behind Enemy Lines (Graphic Great Escapes) by Matt Chandler
18.00 NZD
Category: General Graphic Books | Series: Great Escapes of World War II
Join Lieutenant Robert Grimes as he evades the Nazis with the help of a resistance group known as the Comet Line. From a daring jump from a doomed B-17 bomber to white-knuckled dashes between Comet Line safe houses, this story doesn't just ell you about Grimes' amazing flight to freedom. It drops you be ...Show more
You Wouldn't Want to Be in the Trenches in World War I! by Alex Woolf
25.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: You Wouldn't Want to Be...
It's August 1914. You are 16-year-old Tommy Atkins, living in London. Set against a backdrop of the war just broken out in Europe, find out what your life was like after joining up and being sent to the trenches. From sharing your bed with rats and lice to a diet of bully beef, bread and biscuits, disco ...Show more
Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship" by Deborah Heiligman
28.00 NZD
Category: History
As German Bombs Rained Over England during World War II, British parents by the thousands sent their children out of the country to avoid harm's way. In September 1940, passenger liner SS City of Benares set sail for Canada with one hundred children on board. When the warships escorting the Benares depa ...Show more