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.00ULVA ISLAND is located inside Paterson Inlet of Stewart Island. Ulva Island is universally renowned for the endemic, native birds and plants that constantly fascinate visitors to this little southern bird sanctuary. This lovely book, with its stunning colour photographs, will allow easy identifi...

This story describes how served 21 towns and cities in a nationwide aviation network.

50 pages • 200x210mm

0This book is not meant as some guidebook to a marathon pubcrawl around the South of New Zealand. Instead, it is the history of the early hotels and taverns of the South, which has always intrigued the author – The historic Cardrona Hotel and how it became dry. The Bannockburn Hotel, where incong...

0Over a span of almost 20 years from the mid 1960s to the mid 1980s, a diverse group of very focussed New Zealanders looked skywards and from nothing created and built a well respected North Island airline called Air Central.The story reveals how the airline battled a chronic shortage of finance, r...

Edited by ROSS BARNETT and PAULINE BARNETT This is the story of how the tricky deposits of the Reefton Goldfield yielded great riches throughout the 20th century. It's a a story of clever entrepreneurs, technology innovators, hard-working miners and their families and other interesting characters who left their mark on&hellip

It is now 140 years since the first buildings of the Hakataramea township began to appear as a small community was established at the new railway terminus. But the village, like many others in the rural South Island, did not grow as much as early developers had anticipated and in some respects remar...

Gran decided she needed to do something exciting – but what could she do? A delightful children's story focused on New Zealand's south.

PAUL CAFFYN In the winter of 1979, Paul Caffyn teamed up with Max Reynolds to tackle the formidable coastline of Stewart Island, Rakiura, after first crossing the treacherous waters of Foveaux Strait. Paul’s second book of a Kayak Odyssey trilogy, the others being&hellip

Friendship & Fellowship for fifty years 1974 - 2024

1861 Gabriel Read discovered rich gold in Gabriels Gully triggering off the great gold rush to Otago.

0Four Faith Stories from Hokitika: A minister with an international ministry, a formator of priests, a national church leader, and a distinguished church historian – all from Hokitika on the isolated West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. Growing up in Hokitika, these four were profoundly...

This beautifully presented book, strongly focussed on the people of Glenham and South Wyndham, begins with an acknowlegement of the first settlers of the district – the Murihiku Maori – and a brief chapter on the local geology. A detailed chapter on the first Europeans to settle in the Lower Mat...

Is GE the first thing that comes to mind when hearing the words “genome" or “genomic technology"? You may be surprised to discover how much more there is to this fascinating field of knowledge than just genetic engineering. We devise technologies in order to meet human wants and needs. The great...

Environmentalists in their more optimistic moments describe coal mining as a “sunset industry." But is it really? In the 21st century, New Zealand continues to mine, burn and export coal, despite the fact that, world wide, coal is the single biggest contributor to ocean acidification and to the on...

0The tale of the Robertson family of Blackmount, Western Southland, is worthy of a movie. A young farmer eager to develop his own land has fallen in love with a ballet dancer good enough to be professional. They marry and begin to raise a family of three.This book tells how well-known Southlanders ...

Hunting deer in the mountains led on to crayfishing around the south coast and a helicopter pilot’s licence for Doc Sutherland.

Surveyor, helicopter pilot, rally driver and wanderer – John Carter has filled his life with variety, and he's not finished yet. He takes us on a journey through his many adventures, which together form four major threads of his life.

Golf has been played in Wanaka since about 1911 and, following a short recess during World War I, continuously since 1922. Starting with a 9-hole course down on the flat near the lake (now Pembroke Park), then moving in 1927 up to the present site overlooking Lake Wanaka, the golf course has been de...

Flax by Lloyd Esler – This book tells the story of flax, the rise and fall of a mighty industry in the South. One of NZ's most recognisable native plants, Maori first made considerable use of flax for clothing , then early settlers used the fibre for rope with flaxmilling lasting until the 1970s.