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- Additional information- Reviews (0)This book is the result of an honest and humble attempt to record the brief history of the Chamberlain family, in such a way that those who follow have some record of the pioneering spirit of earlier days in Taranaki.Its compilation has taken much time, labour, a...

- Additional information- Reviews (0)New Zealand has been well served by dedicated enthusiasts who, by their determination and persistence, have established themselves and New Zealand’s name among world authorities. The reminiscences of Frank M. Bateson OBE, FRAS, FRASNZ, a prolific author of scie...

- Additional information- Reviews (0)1769-1846Throughout the history of France, it was not only people who left their homes to explore the world and extend their country’s renown to the furthest corners of the earth. The great wines of France also played the role of ambassadors to perfection. ...

- Additional information- Reviews (0)A History of Featherston County CouncilThis is an account of nearly 120 years of local body service in the district surrounding Lake Wairarapa – the “Lake of Shining Waters". Against a background of pioneer struggles, wars, economic crises, and personal e...

- Additional information- Reviews (0)Envoy Extraordinary: New Zealand’s Soldier-Treatymaker, Commander of the Bath, Knight of the Tower and the Sword, is one of New Zealand’s key figures in the 1840-44 period, when he held a position as ‘Envoy Extraodinary’, a replacement for Lieutenant-Gove...

- Additional information- Reviews (0)In 1950, Warwick Thomson, just turned sixteen had his wish of serving in the merchant navy fulfilled when he was appointed a “Peggy" in a steamship on its way from Auckland to Scotland. This is a fascinatin and amusing account of his experiences on board, with ...

- Additional information- Reviews (0)Charles Barker: Pioneer Missionary, 1803-1875A biography written from his journals and letters.This is the story of Charles Baker. He was born in Leicestershire, England, in 1803. In 1826, aged 23, after the death of his first wife Sophia, he applied to the Churc...

- Additional information- Reviews (0)150 YearsWe have compiled what information was available to complete an overview of and their descendants- from the roots of their beginnings to the present day. Pieces of information of old homes, paintings, photographs, sketches and invariably old tales have be...

- Additional information- Reviews (0)Colonial Dreams & NightmaresThe Honourable Joseph Dresser Tetley MLC, runholder and politician, was a personable and popular entrepreneur who enjoyed a high profile in Marlborough in the 1860s, only to depart suddenly leaving behind a number of unhappy friend...

- Additional information- Reviews (0)During the course of an expedition around the world in the corvette Favorite, Captain Cyrille-Pierre-Théodore Laplace visited the Bay of Islands, where he and his officers carried out detailed scientific work. Their observations of the land and its native inhabi...

- Additional information- Reviews (0)In 1965 Norman Kirk, after a meteoric rise through the ranks of the Labour Party, was elected Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Since then he has travelled widely through New Zealand, speaking on a variety of topics and above all expressing a ‘New Zeala...

- Additional information- Reviews (0)A Centennial History: 1892-1992In 1989, with the club’s centennial year almost three years away, one of my priorities was to find an historian who would provide a professional, accurate and interesting history of the Hull Golf Club’s first century. Af...

- Additional information- Reviews (0)A History of Two GardensWith a Foreword by Kerry CarmanDeep in the heart of the Wairarapa two houses stand side by side on adjoining properties, both facing east to the rising sun. Built respectively by Newman pioneers John Cooper and Samuel Dawson in the ninetee...

- Additional information- Reviews (0)Local Government in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries in Mangonui, Kaitaia, and Adjacent AreasThis book is essentially a social history which not only describes the economic and social development of the area, but concentrates on the human aspects of local a...

- Additional information- Reviews (0)In June 1941 “Sonny" Osbourne sailed from New Zealand to Egypt with the 6th Reinforcements, and served in signal communications until the end of the war. His experiences in the Middle East, in North Africa from El Alamein to Tunis, and in Italy from Taranto to ...

- Additional information- Reviews (0)1816-1903could rightly be called one of New Zealand’s founding fathers. Few early settlers – and Daldy was one of the very earliest, having arrived in Auckland in 1841 – have had such a lasting impact on the fabric of the country, as this biography ...

- Additional information- Reviews (0)The Saga of Amos and Lydia Burr: Their family and the people they knewThis history and biography has been written so that descendants of John and Ann Burr, and of John and Lydia Hoskins, through Amos and Lydia Burr and their brothers and sisters, will have some k...

- Additional information- Reviews (0)France in the Pacific, 1695-1995Terra Australia, the mysterious Southern Continent, was one of the world’s most enduring myths. The search for the “other world" beneath the globe led the French in a battle for the South Seas that was to end, not with the disc...

- Additional information- Reviews (0)Graham Cowie comes from a family of General Practitioners: both his parents were doctors. In this autobiography, he retraces his early years, his life as a house surgeon, post-graduate and overseas travels, his war years, and his long period of service as a G.P. ...

- Additional information- Reviews (0)An Autobiography by G.P. StewartG. P. Stewart was born in Northern Ireland in 1906 and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, where he met fellow student Samuel Beckett. He then joined the Indian Civil Service, serving in northeastern India until 1947, apart from a ...

- Additional information- Reviews (0)“" was the cry of the submarine operator when the incessant “ping" of his transmitter yielded a response. It might be anything – a rock, a reef, another ship, even a mine; something as innocuous as a school of fish or as lethal as a submarine. The diagn...

- Additional information- Reviews (0)A Short History of the Association of New Zealand.The Association of New Zealand has played a significant role in the growth of local drama, helping writers, organising competitions and seminars, encouraging theatre groups to present local plays, and generally pr...

- Additional information- Reviews (0)1940-1945: A Memoir by Joyce Dunmore"The lost days of my life until today, what were they?" – Christina RossettiThe little island of Jersey, situated in the Channel off the Normandy coast, was once a really beau tiful place to live. The fresh sea breezes al...

- Additional information- Reviews (0)A Torpid Neglect“The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty." – George Bernard ShawBack in the late 1960s, a time when there were few independent-minded women prepared to challenge the status quo, Joyce Dunmore was elected to the Palmerston ...