Surgeon Scientist : Adventures In Surgical Research by Graham L. Hill
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: near fine
Graham Hill is a surgeon, university professor and researcher who has worked in hospitals and teaching institutions in New Zealand, Indonesia, the UK and the US. His work on the response of the human body to major surgery has helped doctors improve likely outcomes for patients all over the world. This b ...Show more
Surviving Centrepoint: My Years in New Zealand's Most Infamous Cult by Rachel C. King
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
A powerful survivor's memoir from a former child resident of New Zealand's infamous Centrepoint Community. Shortly before I turned 13, my life changed forever when my family moved to the notorious Centrepoint Community on Auckland's North Shore, then at its peak. Centrepoint was founded by Bert Potter, ...Show more
Sweet As by Garth Cartwright
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
"I come from Mt Roskill. Somebody has to." So says Garth Cartwright of growing up in New Zealand's largest suburb. It had acres of rugby fields and more churches than anywhere else in the country - but there were no cinemas, music venues or pubs. In search of a little more culture, a young Garth up ...Show more
Swift to the Sky: New Zealand's Military Aviation History by Errol W Martyn
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
New Zealanders were among the world's first aviators, with our geography and location making the prospect of flight an attractive one for our people and our nation. It comes as no surprise then that tens of thousands have served in not only the Royal New Zealand Air Force but in numerous air forces in p ...Show more
Sylvia : The Biography of Sylvia Ashton-Warner by Lynley Hood
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
Sylvia Ashton-Warner was one of the great educational innovators of the 20th century. Working predominantly with small New Zealand country schools, particularly with Maori youth, at the furthest edge of the 'civilised world', she established classroom techniques that unlocked a storehouse of imagery nat ...Show more
Tall Tales (Some True) by Greg McGee
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: good
Greg McGee's haphazard journey as unlikely writer, rebellious rugby player, ambivalent protestor, lawyer and defendant, mutineer tourist, dilettante coach and incompetent kangaroo culler has taken him from Ponsonby to Paraburdoo, Tapanui to Harlem, Dunedin to Venice and various other T-shirt destination ...Show more
Te Puea - A Life by Michael King
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: good-very good
'When my life is written, I want the truth and nothing but the truth to be told' (Te Puea Herangi). This book fills a gap in New Zealand's history, documenting the dramatic events surrounding the nearest thing in New Zealand to a nationalist organisation: The Maori King Movement, and, more specifically, ...Show more
The Amazing World of James Hector by Simon Nathan (ed)
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
James Hector was astounding. Scottish-born and trained as a surgeon, at 23 he took part in a daring British expedition to survey western Canada, and was given up for dead at a place still known - on account of his accident - as Kicking Horse Pass. Fortunately, he survived. Then head-hunted to carry out ...Show more
The Bassett Road Machine-Gun Murders by Scott Bainbridge
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: good
On Saturday morning, 7 December 1963, Eric Lewis called around to his property in Bassett Road, Remuera, Auckland, to collect the rent. He was not prepared for the scene that greeted him when he opened the door: his two tenants, George Walker and Kevin Speight, had been violently murdered days before. T ...Show more
The Best Man Who Ever Served the Crown? : A Life of Donald McLean by Ray Fargher
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Second hand. This monumental work of scholarship is the first full biography of one of the key actors in the drama of 19 th-century New Zealand land dealing. It fills a gaping hole in NZ historiography, and will be an enormously valuable resource for future writers and researchers. Donald McLean was ...Show more
The Boy from Gorge River: From New Zealand's remotest family to the world beyond by Chris Long
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: near fine
The story of how an extraordinary childhood shaped an extraordinary life. On the West Coast of the South Island, past deep fiords and snow-capped mountains, Chris Long grew up two days' hike from the nearest road. He was born into the country's most isolated family, his parents committed to freedom from ...Show more
The Dreaming Land by Martin Edmond
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: good-very good
So here I am walking again an old path made new by the very fact that I am upon it once more, accompanied by familiar hordes: the fecund majority of the dead, the myriad of the living in all of their many forms, defunct, mutant, revenant or otherwise, traversing memory's infinite field.In the evocative ...Show more