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Born to a Changing World
Childbirth in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Emerging from diaries, letters and memoirs, the voices of this charming narrative tell of new life arriving amidst a turbulent world.Women in the nineteenth century gave birth in widely varying circumstances: Māori women of noble families might be lovingly cared for within the whare kōhanga; wealthy...
War Beneath the Waves
A True Story of Courage and Leadership Aboard a World War II Submarine
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
From the national bestselling author of Final Patrol comes a gripping story of heroism under the sea.
In November 1943, while on war patrol in the Makassar Strait, the USS Billfish submarine was spotted by the Japanese, who launched a vicious depth charge attack. Explosions wracked the sub...
Lost Kingdom
Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
The New York Times–bestselling author delivers “a riveting saga about Big Sugar flexing its imperialist muscle in Hawaii . . . A real gem of a book” (Douglas Brinkley, author of American Moonshot).
Deftly weaving together a memorable cast of characters, Lost Kingdom brings to life the...
Nathaniel's Nutmeg
or, The True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
A true tale of high adventure in the South Seas.
The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the Indonesian archipelago. Just two miles long and half a mile wide, it is remote, tranquil, and, these days, largely ignored.
Yet 370 years ago, Run's harvest of nutmeg (a pound of...
Wreck of the Medusa
The Tragic Story of the Death Raft
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
“One of the strangest and most horrifying stories ever told.”—John Fowles, author of The French Lieutenant's Woman
**“First rate.”—**Newsweek
In July, 1816, a French frigate ran aground on a sandbar forty miles off the coast of Africa. Forced to abandon ship, 150 men and...
by Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
**An entirely new look at the shocking impact of the First World War on New Zealand.**For New Zealand, World War One was wholly avoidable, wholly unnecessary - and almost wholly disastrous. Stevan Eldred-Grigg believes that the enormous cost of the war to our people was way too high - and that we...
A Sappers' War
How the legendary Aussie Tunnel Rats fought the Vietcong
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
'We make and we break.'
They were the forward scouts, the mine clearers, the bridge builders and the tunnel rats. They were frequently not just on the front line, but right at the sharp end of the action. They were the legendary Aussie sappers, the army engineers, who were literally everywhere...
The United Nations and the Indonesian Takeover of West Papua, 1962-1969
The Anatomy of Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
This book examines the role of the international community in the handover of the Dutch colony of West Papua/Irian Jaya to Indonesia in the 1960s and questions whether or not the West Papuan people ever genuinely exercised the right to self-determination guaranteed to them in the UN-brokered Dutch/Indonesian...
by Gavin McLean
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
TheNew ZealandWars of the 1840s and 1860s, other nineteenth-century military encounters, theSouth AfricanWar, the First and Second World Wars, Korea, Malaya, Vietnam, the Gulf War, modern-day peacekeeping ... The Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War contains the best, widest range of published and...
Fairness and Freedom:A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States
A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Fairness and Freedom compares the history of two open societies--New Zealand and the United States--with much in common. Both have democratic polities, mixed-enterprise economies, individuated societies, pluralist cultures, and a deep concern for human rights and the rule of law. But all of these...
by Dave Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
From the author of Healthy Bastards, the man known as the 'Flying Doctor' is back, this time with his misadventures, escapades and high jinks from a life of medicine, aviation and hunting. For the first time, Dave Baldwin, known throughout the backcountry as the Flying Doctor, shares his tales from...
by Manatū Taonga
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Rangitīaria Dennan of Ngāti Tarāwhai, better known as 'Guide Rangi', escorted tourists around the thermal attractions at Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, for over 40 years.
by Manatū Taonga
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Ngāti Porou leader and politician Āpirana Ngata is one of New Zealand's best-known figures. Working through traditional tribal structures and as MP for Eastern Māori, he pressed for state-funded Māori land development. His wider aim was to strengthen Māori communities and revive Māori culture.
by Manatū Taonga
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Te Puea Hērangi was an influential and effective Waikato leader who was largely responsible for the establishment of Tūrangawaewae marae during the 1920s and 1930s. Her aim was to build an economic base for her people, who had few resources following the confiscation of their land in the 1860s.