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Best of Both Worlds: The: Story of Elsdon Best and Tutakangahau by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In 1895 a meeting took place in the rugged Urewera ranges - Tuhoe country - that would have lasting effects on our views of traditional Maori society. Elsden Best, a self-taught anthropologist and quartermaster on the road past Lake Waikaremoana, was sought out by a leading Tuhoe chief, Tutakangahau of ...Show more
The Lost Pilot by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: Very Good
On 6 April 1945, a Japanese kamikaze pilot breaks cloud at 3,000 feet, near the island of Ishigaki. He plunges his Suisei divebomber into a fatal dive at the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. On the signals deck, Chief Petty Officer W. T. Holman sees him coming - he has just seconds to react. ...Show more
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