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Roughnecks, Rolling Stones and Rouseabouts by John A Lee preserves a fascinating side of our country's story. Even though the times have gone forever some of the more forgotten ch aracters come to life in the pages of Roughnecks, Rolling Stones & Rouseabouts.Hardcover with good quality dustjacket.

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by American journalist William L. Shirer should be essential reading for everyone.Shirer chronicles the rise and fall of Nazi Germany from the birth of Adolf Hitler in 1889 to the end of World War II in Europe in 1945.- First published ...

Here's a rare opportunity to purchase both of the titles in William Shirer's Berlin Diary series.The first Berlin Diary ("The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934–1941") is a first-hand account of the rise of Nazi Germany and its road to war, as witnessed by the American journalist William Shir...

Owls Do Cry is a modernist novel by New Zealand author Janet Frame. First published in 1957, the book covers the story of the Withers siblings, who live in a seaside town in the South Island through a period of 20 years. The book extensively covers Daphne Withers' journey, including undergoing lobot...

The mystery of how a reserved, modest, slightly built farm valuer from New Zealand, could be so ferocious and fearless in battle has intrigued and fascinated Tom Scott ever since he read about Charles Upham as a schoolboy. Searching for Charlie is his epic quest to unravel the “real" Charles Upham...

A compelling sequel to the best-selling novel The Denniston Rose.Eighteen years have passed since the child Rose arrived on the isolated West Coast town of Denniston, riding up the terrifying Incline on a stormy night. She has now grown into a young woman, intelligent and talented, with an outrageou...

This classic story of the Denniston Rose by Jenny Pattrick has become a cultural icon of sorts for the West Coast.A number one bestseller, this favourite New Zealand novel captures a real 19th century community.Into the bleak coal-mining settlement isolated high on a plateau above the West Coast com...

This classic story of the Denniston Rose by Jenny Pattrick has become a cultural icon of sorts for the West Coast.A number one bestseller, this favourite New Zealand novel captures a real 19th century community.Into the bleak coal-mining settlement isolated high on a plateau above the West Coast com...

This tender and amusing novel is set in New Zealand in the nineties, with the Springbok Tour still a recent memory, and as the country debates whether to adopt MMP.Letter-writing is about to give way to email, but elderly Grace will resist the trend. Through letters and stories, we learn of her frie...

A west coast classic, Gold Town was written by a goldfields scholar about his home town. Ross was the most productive alluvial gold field in the country, unequalled in investment and technological development. Well illustrated text.104 pagesPegasus Press,This copy in very good condition as shown in photos.

A west coast classic, Gold Town was written by a goldfields scholar about his home town. Ross was the most productive alluvial gold field in the country, unequalled in investment and technological development. Well illustrated text.104 pagesPegasus Press,This copy in very good condition as shown in photos.

A signed copy of the Illustrated History of the West Coast by Anna Rogers.The West Coast of the South Island has one of the most colourful histories of any region in New Zealand, and that colour and character persists to the present day. This lavishly illustrated volume traces the West Coast in text...

Like no other district in New Zealand, the Mackenzie Country always has a very special appeal to people from all parts of the world. This book is about some of the great people who helped to establish this region of many seasons and of great scenic beauty.Parkhead Publishing, Lake Tekapo, 1991, A5 size 86 page booklet.This copy in good condition as shown in photos.

In this book AH Reed takes us down to Slope Point, the farthest south of the South Island, where we look across Foveaux Strait to romantic Stewart Island.Published by A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington,1953. In fair condition with no dust jacket.This copy in good condition as shown in photos.

Another West Coast classic, this is a lively and personal account of life in New Zealand's most remote settlement in a now almost abandoned district in the far southwest of the South Island, just north of the Milford Sound.1963 edition.Published by Whitcombe and Tombs. In fair condition with no dust...

A primary school resource dating from the days when Coal was King. This nifty little booklet outlines the origin, mining and many uses of coal. Black and white line drawings. Part of the series called Stories of Industry.Smaller than A5, paperback i n very good condition.

The History of Lake County and the Boroughs of Queenstown and Arrowtown by F.W.G. Miller.The author, Frederick Walter Gascoyne Miller OBE, was a notable New Zealand journalist, goldminer, historian, poet and community worker. He was born in Hastings, New Zealand, on 19 September 1904.This copy's dus...

Cheviot Hills, an 84,000 acre North Canterbury sheep run, was a symbol of vast and impregnable wealth to nineteenth-century New Zealand. But in the 1890s it became the first 'big estate’ acquired by the Liberal Government and broken up into small farms.Jim Gardner, a former Canterbury University h...

Wartime memoirs and recollections of the Kiwi experience in Italy during the Second World War.Illustrated throughout with many monochrome images by George F. Kaye, and cartoons by Neville Colvin.Hobbs was a war correspondent with the NZEF Times, the Official Photographer of the 2NZEF, and the cartoo...

Philip Ross May's definitive work on the West Coast Gold Rushes has been the standard history text for decades. Only original copies of this are in circulation, so grab one while you can.This copy is a first edition in very good condition with a counterfeit dustjacket. There is a faded name on the f...

Philip Ross May's definitive work on the West Coast Gold Rushes has been the standard history text for decades. Only original copies of this are in circulation, so grab one while you can.This is a second edition in very good condition. The dustjacket is a counterfeit.First published in 1967.588 pagesIllustrated145 x 220mm

The Golden Reefs: an Account of the Great Days of Quartz-Mining at Reefton, Waiuta and the Lyell by Darrell Latham.Increasingly difficult to source, this 1984 first edition from Pegasus Publishing is a hardback in good condition, with a counterfeit dust jacket. Endpapers are a little stained, but th...

The Golden Reefs: an Account of the Great Days of Quartz-Mining at Reefton, Waiuta and the Lyell by Darrell Latham.Increasingly difficult to source, this 1984 first edition from Pegasus Publishing is a hardback in exceptional condition, with a counterfeit dust jacket. There are no inscriptions or ma...

Poutini - The Ngāi Tahu History of the West CoastPaul MadgwickMāori have lived on Te Tai Poutini for at least as long as anywhere else on theseislands called New Zealand, bound by ancient stories and a unique affinity topounamu. So why is the Māori story so impoverished in a region so rich instor...