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9781869621568
A History of Gardening in New Zealand
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NZ$ 50.00 each
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Author:
Bee Dawson
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Godwit
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An Englishman's home is his castle, but for the first European settlers who came to New Zealand, their first priority was to create a productive and, later, ornamental garden. Bee Dawson traces the development of gardening in New Zealand, from the Maori gardens of pre- and early contact times, through the optimistic efforts of missionaries and the other early settlers, the magnificence and productivity of the Victorians and Edwardians and the "Dig for Victory" campaigns of the 1940s. Illustrated throughout with historic photographs, paintings and ephemera, Dawson's lively writing style brings to life the successes and failures and the sense of achivement felt by New Zealand gardeners through the years, as they coaxed plenty and beauty from a new earth. This book is both beautiful to look at and a delight to read.
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9781869507923
Leading the Way : How New Zealand Women Won the Vote
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Megan Hutching
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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In 1893 New Zealand became the first country in the world to give women the vote, an achievement of which we are justly proud, but it wasn't easily achieved.
Respected historian Megan Hutching records and explains this momentous event, including profiles of the women who brought about the government's change of heart.
Their stories are an important part of our history and their courage, loyalty and fierce belief in democracy was remarkable. The story of how New Zealand women won the vote makes fascinating reading.
First published March 2010.
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9781869507275
Caesar : The True Story of a Canine ANZAC Hero
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Patricia Stroud
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HarperCollins New Zealand
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A superb true story about the courage and loyalty of a dog and his handler in wartime.
When the Zealand Rifle Brigade marched down Queen Street to board their transport ship to the Western Front, they were led by their mascot, a bulldog named Caesar. One of those waving him farewell was four-year-old Ida, whose favourite ribbon had been tied to Caesar's collar by his handler, her Uncle Tom. Trained as a Red Cross dog, Caesar rescued wounded soldiers from the hell of no-man's-land. Uncle Tom wrote home about their adventures to Ida, who eventually passed the stories on to her children and grandchildren. Patricia Stroud, Ida's daughter, tells the poignant story of an unsung Kiwi hero, and a little-known aspect of the First World War. First published for younger readers,
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The New Oxford History of New Zealand (3rd Edition 2009)
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Author:
Giselle Byrnes (editor)
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OUP Australia and New Zealand
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The most up-to-date multi-authored revisionist history of Aotearoa New Zealand. This book tests the idea that New Zealand history can be explained as a quest for 'national identity' and considers whether narratives that rely on the 'colony-to-nation' storyline are still relevant today. Featuring previously unpublished research, this book proposes that history and identity have been shaped by culture, community, class, region and gender, and that these have been (and remain) more important than ideas of evolving nationhood.
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9781877372810
Beyond The Scene : Landscape and Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Janet Stephenson , Mick Abbott & Jacinta Ruru (Editors)
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University of Otago Press
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If a nation could be said to have a dominant passion, New Zealand's would be its landscapes. Images of spectacular natural features pervade the media - between the pages of glossy coffee-table books, in tourism promotions and on screen as the setting for blockbuster movies - but are these scenes that define its people? For Beyond the Scene the editors asked eleven writers to choose a landscape that was important to them and to write it from the perspective of their life experience and knowledge. From farmer to art historian and film critic, geographer and planner to lawyer, from landscape architect to poet and environmentalist - these are diverse voices. Each discusses a very different landscape: from suburban Auckland and rural Waikato to a planned town in Canterbury and much-filmed Otago. Together, they investigate the relationship landscape has to identity, community and psyche.
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Dust to Gold : The inspiring story of Bendigo Station home of Shrek
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John Perriam (photography Stephen Jaquiery)
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Random House New Zealand Ltd
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Shrek may be the star of Bendigo Station, but the back-story of the station is rich and fascinating, from its earliest days as the scene of New Zealand's richest quartz reef gold strike in the 1860s to its establishment as a 11,000 hectare sheep station producing many of New Zealand's highest quality top price Merino clips. As well as this it's now home to several leading Pinot Noir vineyards, public walkways, a historic reserve and fishing and game hunting. None of this recent development would have come about if it weren't for the far-sighted, entrepreneurial and innovative owners, John and Heather Perriam. They took on Bendigo in the late 1970s after the Clyde Dam project forced them off the nearby family farm. They had spent several years in ultimately fruitless battles with bureaucracy, trying to stop the dam project from going ahead. Things weren't easy at Bendigo Station either. Chief among their problems was a rabbit plague ...
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