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The viaducts and the town site of Port Craig comprise some of New Zealand’s finest industrial heritage which can be explored by tramping tracks.

This is a detailed book of the origins of the Street and Suburb names of Invercargill, Bluff and Otatara, along with Makarewa, Wallacetown and Wyndham, illustrated throughout with new and historic photographs.

0The story of the early European exploration and settlement of Southland including the European discovery of Foveaux Strait; the early sealers, whalers and whaling stations of the south; James Spencer who landed at Bluff in 1824 to found the oldest town in the South Island; John Howell who founded ...

Southland’s rich and storied history of competitive swimming is set to make a splash with the launch of the much-anticipated book, Southland’s Swimming Story.

a well-researched and meticulously compiled account of two historic Southland railway lines.

Radio Pre-Eminent: The Radio Corporation of New Zealand Story

0This illustrated history of , the Milford Track and the Milford Road contains an outstanding collection of over 300 early photographs, paintings and maps, the great majority of which have never been published before.The book includes the earliest accounts of the first Europeans to visit , the seal...

Looking Back: A Collection of Memories from Otautau and Districts

Written by popular author Invercargill naturalist, historian and teacher Lloyd Esler, this book about Southland's only city, Invercargill, covers early Maori settlement, the coming of the Europeans, how the city got its name, the early years, progress from a small town to a city, businesses, re...

0celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Lyttelton Railway Tunnel by exploring the politics, the technology and the human stories behind the construction of the Lyttelton Railway Tunnel – the largest single engineering project of colonial New Zealand.The tunnel, from the vote to build to final co...

Written by popular author Invercargill naturalist, historian and teacher Lloyd Esler, this book tells of the introduction of rabbits and possums into New Zealand, c1838, and the consequences of that action.

0We live in one of the most scenic spots in the world and what better way to showcase our province than to put photos in print for all to see. The ‘’ picture book will be a lasting reminder of all that is good about living in Southland – our province, our scenery, our industries and o...

Written by popular author Invercargill naturalist, historian and teacher Lloyd Esler, this book tells of the area of Omaui, a small portion of the Southland coast, bordered by the mouth of the New River (Oreti) Estuary, the Mokomoko Inlet and Greenhills. This book details its long and rich history â...

0In this illustrated history of , John Hall-Jones considers himself extremely fortunate to have inherited his father’s extensive collection of photographs of early Invercargill. But buildings need people in them to bring them to life and here again he has been fortunate to have inherited his fath...

On February 12th 1962 Dragonfly ZK-AFB went missing on a scenic flight from Christchurch to Milford Sound.

0– New Zealand’s worst internal air disaster: Flight 441 from Auckland to Tauranga on 3 July 1963 began as a typical National Airways Corporation DC-3 flight of the era. The passengers represented a cross section of New Zealand society; men and women, Maori and Pakeha, young and old. Th...

0New Zealand’s first licensed airline to fly scheduled services, operated the Hokitika to Haast route on the Scenic West Coast of the South Island. Air Travel (NZ) Ltd was launched in 1934 by legendary pilot Bert Mercer. The airline also pioneered airmail, air ambulance, alpine tourist flying...

0With an impressive total of 31 historical books, popular author Dr John Hall-Jones is in an unique position to write this book on. Hall-Jones writes of the arrivals of the early Maori and later the Europeans, the navigators, sealers and whalers, in the southern part of New Zealand.He takes us to t...

Written by popular author Invercargill naturalist, historian and teacher Lloyd Esler, this book tells of two great industries, whaling and sealing, which had a significant place in the history of southern New Zealand. This book draws information from many sources to tell that story. It covers as wel...

‘’ tells the story of the how the Upper Clutha River rose to become a significant site of gold dredging activity in Otago in the first half of the twentieth century. Tackling the complicated gold deposits were a series of clever entrepreneurs, technology innovators and hard-working miners, all of whom took substantial risks in their mining endeavours.

a comprehensive physical, social and historical guide to the Carrick Range in Central Otago. It covers everything from geology, Maori legends, the challenging gold rush years and the history of the large sheep stations, to the Chinese sojourners, pioneering women and tourism.

Gold was discovered in Central Otago in 1862. This is the story of one of the goldmining areas – the Nevis Valley. It combines the writings of a young school teacher, Gavine Campbell, with stories of people who braved the challenges the Nevis threw at them. Gavine, her husband and their children were the last family to mine in the Nevis Valley.

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...

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...