In 2006 NEW ZEALAND AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN introduced a new way of looking at New Zealand’s national experience – its history, society and politics, even its rugby – as 15 authors considered what could have been rather than simply what was. Now this new book offers a further 17 portraits of ‘New Zealand as it mig.. More
The various peoples who have come to call New Zealand home have long histories of their own, but as a modern nation, New Zealand is young. Such youth has a particular vibrancy, and its own peculiar crises.
New Zealanders have seen war, at home and abroad; they have also sought peace, domestically and internationally. And whether New Zealande.. More
A book on the history of a ruby mine said to have been discovered in South-West New Zealand in the 1890s, and the subsequent searches for its location.
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Originally published 1911, by S. W. Partridge & Co., Ltd.Herbert Escott-Inman's The Castaways of Disappointment Island is the true story of the wreck of the Dundonald near the Auckland Islands, a group of sub-antarctic islands lying 180 miles south of New Zealand, in 1907.The Dundonald sank on 7th March 1907 after running ashore on the west sid.. More
Heritage vignettes in prose and illustration of Wellington buildings, with 244 pen and ink drawings of historic Wellington buildings, many of which no longer exist.
This is the complete record of 244 Cityscapes articles which ran in The Evening Post newspaper from 1976 to 1982. My editor Mike Robson wanted what was new at the ti.. More