New Zealand (504)

Beyond Cook's Gardens : A Writer's Journey

ISBN: 9780473163327

Author: Norman Harris    Publisher: Last Side Publishing

Pages: 200


Tags: Biography   New Zealand
$29.95
A Nurse at War: Emily Peter, 1858-1927

ISBN: 9780908714094

Author: Joan Woodward & Glenys Mitchell    Publisher: Te Waihora Press

DoP Sept 2008, Christchurch Raised on a remote sheep farm in the Mid Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island, Emily Peters (1858-1927) had a remarkable ...


DoP Sept 2008, Christchurch Raised on a remote sheep farm in the Mid Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island, Emily Peters (1858-1927) had a remarkable career as a nurse. In the 1890s she travelled to the United Kingdom to train at Westminster Hospital. She then nursed in England and served as a nurse in the South African War and in Serbia and Egypt during World War I. In this intriguing book, two authors, Joan Woodward and Glenys Mitchell, have linked Emily Peter's surviving papers - among them a fascinating nursing casebook and a vivid war diary - into a narrative account of an extraordinary life of devotion to helping others. The book illuminates the history of nursing in England and New Zealand. It also casts a light on an emerging New Zealand nationhood and on women's emancipation. In Emily Peter's life and writings readers will see New Zealanders of British descent becoming a distinct people with their own national characteristics over a single generation.


Pages: 167


Tags: History   New Zealand   Military
$45.00 $19.99
Westland & Fiordland

ISBN: 9781877303326

Author: Peter Morath    Publisher: The Caxton Press

Bind: paperback


Pages: 48


Dimensions: 245 x 210 mm


Publication Date: 30-09-2012


$19.99
A Compendium of Railway Construction

ISBN: 9780908573547

Author: F.K. Roberts    Publisher: New Zealand Railway & Locomotive Society

Forging of the main trunk between Te Kuiti and Marton, construction of tunnels, bridges and other civil engineering feats are covered in detail. Accompanied wit...


Forging of the main trunk between Te Kuiti and Marton, construction of tunnels, bridges and other civil engineering feats are covered in detail. Accompanied with maps, diagrams, and 58 interesting photographs of construction and operation. 64 pages


Tags: Transport   New Zealand
$14.00
Vile Crimes: The Timaru Poisonings

ISBN: 9781877257599

Author: Peter Graham    Publisher: Canterbury University Press

On a drizzly Monday morning, 16 August 1886, the inhabitants of Timaru woke to astounding news. Tom Hall junior, a well-known local businessman and man about t...


On a drizzly Monday morning, 16 August 1886, the inhabitants of Timaru woke to astounding news. Tom Hall junior, a well-known local businessman and man about town, nephew of former New Zealand Premier Sir John Hall, had been arrested for attempting to murder his wife, Kitty, by poisoning. Also charged was Margaret Houston, Kitty Hall's lady-help. It was without doubt the most extraordinary thing that had ever happened in Timaru, if not the whole colony... So begins Vile Crimes , a riveting and fast-paced examination of one of New Zealand's most sensational court cases. First published November 2007.


Pages: 168


Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 13 mm


Tags: New Zealand   History
$29.50
Bill's Story: A Portrait of W. A. Sutton

ISBN: 9781877257704

Author: Pat Unger    Publisher: Canterbury University Press

Three years after the artist's death, W. A. Sutton: A Retrospective was held to celebrate the opening of the new glass-bright Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o...


Three years after the artist's death, W. A. Sutton: A Retrospective was held to celebrate the opening of the new glass-bright Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, in 2003. Thousands of visitors to the exhibition were bowled over by Bill Sutton's artistic skill and his vision of Canterbury. Bill's Story goes behind the artist to discover the child, the student, the tutor, the citizen, the well-mannered bohemian. The book is derived mainly from Sutton's extensive archives, and from the author's personal knowledge of the artist. We meet his pioneer grandparents, who hailed from England and Northern Ireland, and his parents and brother in their modest family home in Sydenham, Christchurch. Pat Unger portrays an attentive son, a steadfast friend and erudite academic, a resolute administrator and a multi-skilled professional artist. First published March 2008.


Pages: 252


Dimensions: 170 x 240 mm


$39.99
The Land of Doing without: Davey Gunn of the Hollyford (2022 Reprint)

ISBN: 9781877257537

Author: Julia Bradshaw    Publisher: Canterbury University Press

Davey Gunn lived 30 years in Fiordland's rugged Hollyford Valley, where he had one of the most isolated cattle runs in New Zealand. When he moved there in 1926 ...


Davey Gunn lived 30 years in Fiordland's rugged Hollyford Valley, where he had one of the most isolated cattle runs in New Zealand. When he moved there in 1926 he left behind his wife and children - and civilisation- for a tough and solitary life he grew to love.
Although quiet and modest by nature, Davey became known throughout New Zealand as a back-country hero for his 20-hour journey to raise the alarm after a fatal plane crash at Big Bay on 1936. His efforts saw the four survivors rescued, and the legend of Davey Gunn began.
Against the almost insuperable odds of difficult country, isolation, the Depression, the depredations of a burgeoning deer population and the constant threat of losing his short-term leases, Davey wrestled to make a living from his largely wild cattle.
He was also keen to open up and share the land he loved, and in the mid-1930s pioneered guided walking and riding trips in the Hollyford and Pyke Valleys. Hollford Camp, also known to this day as Gunns Camp, is testament to the efforts of this true No.8 wire man, who did more than any other individual to alert travellers throughout New Zealand and the world to the unparalleled beauty of this part of Fiordland.
It is somehow fitting that, on Christmas Day 1955, the Hollyford River eventually claimed this remarkable man. The Land of Doing Without brings to life the memories of many of Davey's contemporaries, and explores the man behind the legend: his quirks, his fortitude and his legacy.


Bind: paperback


Pages: 176


Dimensions: 170 x 240 x 15 mm


Publication Date: 14-08-2012


$34.99
Looking for Answers: A Life of Elsie Locke

ISBN: 9781877257803

Author: Maureen Birchfield    Publisher: Canterbury University Press

Writer and activist Elsie Locke was a remarkable woman whose contribution to Aotearoa New Zealand went largely unrecognised during her lifetime. In a long and ...


Writer and activist Elsie Locke was a remarkable woman whose contribution to Aotearoa New Zealand went largely unrecognised during her lifetime. In a long and eventful life she campaigned for birth control, women's rights, nuclear disarmament, social justice and the environment before such causes were popular. She wrote almost 40 books, numerous articles and School Journal stories, and was a published poet. Forthright she might have been, but the diminutive Elsie Locke was a very private and modest person. In this insightful and compelling biography, Maureen Birchfield peels back the layers of the public firebrand to find an ordinary woman who negotiated enormous personal obstacles to raise four children while striving tirelessly to improve the world around her. Recently declassified security files confirm that the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (and its antecedents) had Elsie firmly in their sights, particularly while she was a member of the the Communist Party of New Zealand (1933-56). Incorporating information from these files, Maureen Birchfield delivers a fascinating portrait of a woman ahead of her time.


Pages: 560


Dimensions: 210 x 200 mm


Publication Date: 01-08-2009


Tags: Biography   New Zealand
$69.99
Chatham Islands: Heritage and Conservation

ISBN: 9781877257780

Author: Colin Miskelly    Publisher: Canterbury University Press

This much-anticipated revised and expanded edition describes the Chatham Islands with emphasis on their geology, flora, fauna, habitats, and extinct and endang...


This much-anticipated revised and expanded edition describes the Chatham Islands with emphasis on their geology, flora, fauna, habitats, and extinct and endangered species - on land, in freshwater and in the sea. It also provides an introduction to the human history of the islands, and is a guide to the many reserves and covenants that have been established to protect and conserve the islands' heritage.


Pages: 224


Dimensions: 185 x 248 x 18 mm


$39.95
The Logie Collection

ISBN: 9781877257667

Author: J.R. Green    Publisher: Canterbury University Press

The University of Canterbury's Logie Collection is an outstanding selection of antiquities from the Greek and Roman world. It includes high quality pottery from...


The University of Canterbury's Logie Collection is an outstanding selection of antiquities from the Greek and Roman world. It includes high quality pottery from Classical Greece, some of it world famous, and also a range of other material such as tomb-groups from the Early Bronze Age of Cyprus, marble and terracotta portraits and figurines, glass from Roman Britain, funerary inscriptions from Rome, stone reliefs from Egypt, and pottery from ancient Etruria. The collection began in the 1950s in memory of the former registrar of the university, James Logie. This superbly illustrated catalogue provides a description of the complete collection of 248 objects, together with discussion of their place in the contemporary world.


Bind: hardback


Pages: 424


Dimensions: 215 x 215 mm


Publication Date: 01-06-2009


$120.00 $40.00
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