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Old South: Life and Times in the Nineteenth-century Mainland by Matthew Wright
$50.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
A lively new illustrated history of the South Island by Matthew Wright, Old South tells a story of triumphs, tragedies and earnest hopes. It covers: early Maori-Pakeha conflict, the Wairau Affair, colonial settlement planned and unplanned, the Gold Rush, the growth of farming and the pastoral elite, and ...Show more
Quake : The Hawke's Bay Earthquake by Matthew Wright
$27.00 NZD
Category: History
On 3 February 1931, Hawke's Bay was shattered by the largest earthquake ever recorded in New Zealand. It was a disaster of national proportions, damaging buildings from Gisborne to Wanganui, a catastrophe that officially killed 256 and seriously injured more than 400. Fresh pictures, diaries and eyewitn ...Show more
Shattered Glory: The New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front by Matthew Wright
$46.00 NZD
Category: History
The Gallipoli campaign of 1915 destroyed New Zealand's fantasies of war as a glorious schoolboy adventure on behalf of a beloved Empire. The Western Front campaign that followed in 1916-18 gave shape to the emotional impact. It was a horror world of death and mud that destroyed the souls of the young me ...Show more