Interview with Blackbeard & Other Vicious Villains by Andy Seed
17.00 NZD
Category: History
If you could go back in time and talk to famous villains from the past, what would you ask? Brave animal interviewer and author Andy Seed has adapted his incredible 'tranimalator' device into a time machine, allowing him to go back and talk to all kinds of figures from history! Get to know 10 famous vil ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Inventions (HB) by Matt Ralphs
40.00 NZD
Category: History
CHOCKS AWAY! Take off on a marvellous journey of discovery as you explore 80 incredible world-changing inventions from around the globe! From the wheel to the space rocket, the bow and arrow to the atom bomb, chocolate to toothpaste, and the battery to the quantum computer, find out about innovations fr ...Show more
The Great Wall of China (#2 Magical History Tour) by Fabrice Erre
15.00 NZD
Category: General Graphic Books | Series: Magical History Tour
New multi-volume series both fun and educational, in slim pocket sized hardcovers! Current day kids Annie and Nico travel back to--ancient China to witness the construction of one of the most impressive architectural feats: The Great Wall of China. A system of walls and borders built to bolster the Silk ...Show more
Gandhi (#7 Magical History Tour) by Fabrice Erre
15.00 NZD
Category: General Graphic Books | Series: Magical History Tour Ser.
Modern day kids Annie and Nico go on a magical history tour to find out how modern-day India became the way it is. Much of which is due to one man who practiced peaceful resistance... Gandhi. This man, a tireless defender against oppression, fought all his life for independence from the British colonist ...Show more
ANZAC Heroes by Maria Gill
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Discover the triumphs and tragedies of 24 heroic Australasians during World War One and Two. Read the biographies of ANZAC soldiers, as well as Air Force and Navy soldiers, medics, a spy, an ambulance driver and an humanitarian, surviving in battles in England, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Paci ...Show more
History FACTopia (HB) by Paige Towler
29.00 NZD
Category: History
An enthralling and hilarious journey through global history in 400 connected facts! In this blast-from-the-past adventure you’ll discover hundreds of the most mind-blowing facts from history. Hidden tombs, ghostly ships, boiled vipers, samurai warriors, snow machines, pet lions, hidden pyramids, secret ...Show more
A New Dawn (English Version) by Emeli Sione
30.00 NZD
Category: History
Emeli Sione shares her Dawn Raid story to help us understand the real impact of this dark time in our history. With valuable lessons for all New Zealanders, A New Dawn provides us with hope on our journeys of equality, justice and healing as Pasifika in New Zealand.
Ancient Worlds: Travel Back in Time and Discover the First Great Civilizations by DK
38.00 NZD
Category: History
Ancient Worlds is a tour through history's most influential civilizations between 3000 BCE and 600 CE, capturing in vivid detail moments that convey the cultural, technological, and organizational characteristics central to their success. From Sumer, the world's earliest civilization, to the heyday of t ...Show more
How Humans Took Over the World: Unstoppable Us, Volume 1 (HB) by Yuval Noah Harari
45.00 NZD
Category: History
*From the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens comes an incredible new story of the human race, for younger readers.* We humans aren't strong like lions, we don't swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don't have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world? The answer to that is one o ...Show more
Those Magnificent Voyagers of the Pacific by Andrew Crowe
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
This epic story begins 5000 years ago, when the ancestors of Polynesians discovered ways to ‘see’ over the horizon to find and settle new islands. As their landfinding skills grew, these people took ever bigger strides across the vast Pacific until they reached South America. It was not until almost eve ...Show more
Live Like a Hunter Gatherer by Naomi Walmsley
23.00 NZD
Category: History
Live Like a Hunter Gatherer is an informative and immersive guide to the Stone Age, written by a real-life hunter gatherer! If you imagined that all Stone Age people lived in caves, were not very clever, not very clean and said "Ugg" a lot, then think again. Marking the start of all human history, the S ...Show more
Protest!: Shaping Aotearoa by Mandy Hager
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
A selected history of the protests in New Zealand that shape modern day Aotearoa, starting with the early 1800s, through to anti-nuclear and land rights. Mandy Hager looks at the background, the structure of the protest and how it affected attitudes. Includes a brief look at the Pacific Islands claims f ...Show more