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Although Arctic explorer and Hudson Bay Company surveyor John Rae (1813–1893) travelled and recorded the final uncharted sections of the Northwest Passage, he is best known for his controversial discovery of the fate of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1845. Based on evidence given to him by local...

'I was dissatisfied with the history of New Zealand we were taught at school... I always felt short-changed. I couldn't understand why the Maori accounts were not an accepted part of the past, part of a truth that revealed a deeper history.' Thus speaks Gary Cook, who has made many intriguing journeys...

Nowhere else in the world is there anything quite like it; and nothing is more beloved by Australians. Its appeal leaps across the generations, the sexes and all the social, political and religious persuasions. It is the one thing we all have in common: it is the great Australian meat pie.We all carry...

In de maand September 1882 stapte ik op de Fidji-eilanden aan wal, juist toen de zetel der regeering van de haven van Levuka, op het eiland Ovalaoe, werd overgebracht naar Suva, eene ruime haven aan de door koraalbanken gevormde baai van gelijken naam op het eiland Viti-Levoe. Ik bracht eerst...

Reeds meermalen brachten wij een bezoek aan een der schier tallooze eilandengroepen, die daar in den Grooten-oceaan liggen uitgestrooid als het zaad op den akker, of als de sterren aan den nachtelijken hemel. Maar deze eilanden wereld is, onder meer dan een opzicht, zoo merkwaardig en geeft ons zulke...

What is life like without arms? Rod Haines was born in 1942, at a time when doctors freely gave advice on options of what to do with this armless baby, and whom they thought would also have limited brain function. Rod was the middle child of five children and his childhood was full of...

This is the Official Holiday FM Travel Guide to Sydney.This ebook is designed to be read before you go on the plane or whilst you are walking around town. The book features 8 sections you can read when you're out and about.Including:1. An Introduction To The City2. The History3. The City4. The Weather5. Festivals and Culture6. Nights Out7. A perfect Day8. Getting Around Sydney

Our fern might be silver but us Kiwis love to take that gold medal spot. First to give women the vote, first to climb Mount Everest, first to split the atom . But did you know that it was a Kiwi who was the first player to be sent off in a rugby test? Or that it was a Kiwi who was the first...

In 1794 and 1799 Superintendent of Convicts Nicholas Devine was granted 210 acres on the edge of the current CBD of Sydney. After the demise of Governor Bligh (to whom he was closely allied) Devine reluctantly retired to his estate where, as an old man living alone, he was constantly beaten and robbed. An...

'Parihaka was a place and an event that could be lost and found, over and over. It moved into view, then disappeared, just like the mountain.' In 1881, over 1,500 colonial troops invaded the village of Parihaka near the Taranaki coast. Many people were expelled, buildings destroyed, and chiefs...

What happens when you leave city life and move to five acres on a hunch, with a husband who’s an aspiring alpaca-whisperer, and a feral cockerel for company? Can you eat the cockerel for dinner? Or has it got rigor mortis? In search of a good life and a slower pace, Fiona Stocker upped-sticks...

New Zealand World War II conscientious objectors were treated more harshly by the authorities than those in other countries.Imprisoned for their pacifist beliefs, first in Mt Eden and Wanganui, Chris Palmer and Merv Browne were then moved to military defaulters’ camps in the central North...

Bringing to life the musical worlds of New Zealanders both at home and out on the town, this history chronicles the evolution of popular music in New Zealand during the 20th century. From the kiwi concert parties during World War I and the arrival of jazz to the rise of swing, country, the Hawaiian...

From the renowned British author of The Dancer Upstairs comes this “meticulous, lyrical history” of the remote island and his family’s connection to it (Publishers Weekly).   Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as “one of the best English novelists of our time,” Nicholas Shakespeare decided...