Tall Ships: The 16 Square Riggers of Australia and New Zealand by John Coombes
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
This beautifully photographed book enables the reader to step back in time, to a world when tall ships were the means by which continents were discovered, trade routes were opened up and new worlds were colonised.Today, the sixteen square-rigged tall ships that make their home in Australian and New Zeal ...Show more
Tall Spars, Steamers & Gum - A History of the Kaipara from Early European Settlement 1854-1947 by Wayne Ryburn
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Tangata Whenua - A History [text-only edition] by Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney, Aroha Harris
$50.00 NZD
Category: History | 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
Tangata Whenua: The World of the Maori - out of print by Don Stafford
$22.00 NZD
Category: History
In this easily understood introduction to 'things Maori'. Don Stafford explains the origins of the Maori, their arrival in this country and their development here in both pre- and post-European times. Drawing on tradition, myth and history, Don Stafford answers the questions commonly asked by New Zealan ...Show more
Tangata o le Moana: New Zealand and the People of the Pacific by Sean Mallon, Kolokesa Māhina-Tuai and Damon Salesa
$80.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
This richly illustrated history tells the fascinating story of Pacific people and their relationships with, and contributions to, New Zealand society. Across fifteen chapters written by leading historians and writers, every aspect of New Zealand’s relationship with Pacific people is covered - from migra ...Show more
Tasman Trespasser II: The Shaun Quincey Story by Shaun Quincey
$42.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
In a nail-biting, funny, poignant and inspiring modern-day adventure, Shaun Quincey shares the physical and mental challenges and utter exhilaration of pitting yourself against something way bigger and way more unforgiving than anything you'll ever face in a life more ordinary. In 1977, Colin Quincey be ...Show more
Te Hokowhitu a Tu: The Maori Pioneer Battalion in the First World War by Christopher Pugsley
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: Very Good
Maori soldiers signing up for the First World War representing a formidable fighting force - Te Hokowhitu a Tu, or the Seventy twice-told warriors of the war god, Tumatauenga. Some 2,227 Maori and 458 Pacific Islanders enlisted with the Maori Pioneer Battalion, providing an essential element in the New ...Show more
Te Pito O Toku Ao: a Ngapuhi Narrative Ko Tautoro by Sadler Hone
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
Ngapuhi is the largest iwi in New Zealand, and its people have occupied the northern North Island, from Tamaki in the south to Te Rerenga Wairua in the north, from the time of their arrival from Hawaiki. Ko Tautoro, Te Pito o Toku Ao is Ngapuhi elder Hone Sadler's powerful account of the origins, histor ...Show more
Te Tiriti o Waitangi The treaty of Waitangi 1840 by Claudia Orange
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Published in conjunction with the He Tohu exhibition at the National Library. Each book celebrates one of the three founding documents in New Zealand's history He Whakaputanga: The Declaration of Independence (1835), the Treaty of Waitangi: Te Tiriti o Waitangi (1840) and the Women's Suffrage Petition ( ...Show more
Tea: A Potted History of Tea in New Zealand by Susette Goldsmith
$35.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Tea takes a wide-ranging and fast moving survey of the influences of tea and associated social traditions in New Zealand from frontier times to the present day. Tea drinking customs in China, Japan, England, Scotland, Holland and Italy provide useful context, but the focus is on the development of a ÃÂ ...Show more
Tears of Rangi - Experiments Across Worlds by Salmon D Anne
$65.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Six centuries ago Polynesian explorers, who inhabited a cosmos in which islands sailed across the sea and stars across the sky, arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand where they rapidly adapted to new plants, animals, landscapes and climatic conditions. Four centuries later, European explorers arrived with map ...Show more
Teenagers - The rise of youth culture in New Zealand by Chris Brickell
$50.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Teenagers is a ground-breaking history of young people in New Zealand from the nineteenth century to the 1960s. Through their diaries and letters, photographs and drawings, we meet young New Zealanders as they transition from children to adults: sealers and bushfellers, factory girls and newspaper boys, ...Show more