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Trangressing Tikanga: Captured by Maori: First-hand Accounts 1816-1884 by Trevor Bentley
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
Transgressing Tikanga is a collection of 20 first-hand accounts written by Europeans who were captured by Maori between 1816 and 1884. These Pakeha men and women were seized when they either committed blatant acts of aggression or unknowingly transgressed tikanga Maori (customary law), for which utu was ...Show more
The Barbizon by Paulina Bren
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
Built in 1927, New York's Barbizon Hotel was first intended as a home for the 'Modern Woman' seeking a career in the arts. It became the place to stay for ambitious, independent women, who were lured by the promise of fame and good fortune. Sylvia Plath fictionalized her time there in The Bell Jar, and ...Show more
Green Shades - An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners by Elizabeth Jane Howard (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A delightful companion for all those with a love for gardens and for the very best garden writing. Acclaimed author Elizabeth Jane Howard said she would certainly have been a gardener had she not become a writer first. In Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners, first published in 1 ...Show more
Spooked - The Secret Rise of Private Spies by Barry Meier
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
A spy story like no other. Private spies are the invisible force that shapes our modern world: they influence our elections, effect government policies and shape the fortunes of companies. More deviously, they are also peering into our personal lives as never before, using off-the shelf technology to l ...Show more
First Map: How James Cook Charted Aotearoa New Zealand by Tessa Duder and David Elliot
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
The story of how James Cook charted Aotearoa New Zealand, lavishly produced and richly illustrated. Since it was published by the Admiralty in 1816, James Cook's chart of New Zealand has long been regarded as one of the most extraordinary achievements in the history of cartography. First Map: How James ...Show more
The Whole Picture - The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums & Why We Need to Talk about It by Alice Procter
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again. Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonise' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall? From the stolen Wakandan art in Black Panther, to Emmanuel Macron's recent commitment to art restitution, and Bey ...Show more
Healing Our History: The Challenge of the Treaty of Waitangi (3rd revised edition) by Robert Consedine; Joanna Consedine
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
A powerful and humane book, Healing Our Historyeschews rhetoric and cuts to the true story of race relations in New Zealand.The Treaty of Waitangi is the most important document in New Zealand's history. Current Treaty issues and Maori/Pakeha relationships can only be understood within the wider story o ...Show more
Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present by Philipp Blom
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
'Europe where the sun dares scarce appearFor freezing meteors and congealed cold.' Christopher MarloweIn this innovative and compelling work of environmental history, Philipp Blom chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, a crisis that would transform the entire social and political fabric of Eu ...Show more
Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
Lucia's fingers found her own. She gazed at Caro as if from a distance. Her lips parted, her words a whisper: 'He knows.' London, 1782. Desperate for her politician husband to return home from France, Caroline 'Caro' Corsham is already in a state of anxiety when she finds a well-dressed woman mortally ...Show more
Beneath Another Sky by Norman Davies
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
Human history is a tale not just of constant change, but of perpetual restlessness. In Beneath Another Sky the esteemed historian Norman Davies embarks upon a journey round the world to show the layers of experience that underpin our present - and brilliantly complicate our view of the past. 'If you are ...Show more
Hi-Fi: The History of High-End Audio Design by Gideon Schwartz
$150.00 NZD
Category: History
A beyond-cool look at the world of high-end audio design for passionate collectors, obsessive audiophiles, and design fans At a time when sales of vinyl records have hit a 25-year high, and analog technologies are providing the kind of extraordinary audio experiences that our increasingly digital world ...Show more
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master Agent by Owen Matthews
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
'The most formidable spy in history' IAN FLEMING 'His work was impeccable' KIM PHILBY 'The spy to end spies' JOHN LE CARR Born of a German father and a Russian mother, Richard Sorge moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility. In the years leading up to and during the Second World Wa ...Show more
