Faith Moves Mountains; The Story Of St. George's Hospital by John Russel Wilford
$35.00 NZD
Category: Christchurch City & Banks Peninsula
Written for the 1950 commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the landing at Lyttleton, New Zealand, of the Canterbury Pilgrims.
Faith of our fathers : the history of St Bede's College by David McCarthy
$45.00 NZD
Category: Christchurch City & Banks Peninsula
This impressive book of 458 glossy pages and weighing over 2 Kg does worthy justice to the hundred years (1911 - 2011) of history of this Catholic secondary school for boys. It is the work of former pupil and journalist David McCarthy, drawing on a vast array of narrative and anecdotes backed by careful ...Show more
Fendall's Legacy: A History of Fendalton and Northwest Christchurch by Frieda Looser
$55.00 NZD
Category: Christchurch City & Banks Peninsula
A brilliant book on Christchurch's most exclusive suburb, "this book covers the history of the district up to the present day and is lavishly illustrated with maps, street plans, aerial photographs, and pictures of people, houses and buildings..." Written by Frieda Looser, currently a teacher at the Aca ...Show more
For others with love by Baker, Marcia
$32.50 NZD
Category: Christchurch City & Banks Peninsula
Written on the occasion of the centennial celebrations of the founding of the New Zealand Order of Methodist deaconesses in 1907 and covering the years from 1890 - 1979. Marcia Baker trained as a Methodist deaconess from 1949-50. She is also the author of "You Go Where?" (2004).
Frederick Page - A Musician's Journal by J. M. Thomson; Janet Paul
$47.50 NZD
Category: Christchurch City & Banks Peninsula | Reading Level: very good
French Akaroa by Peter Tremewan
$55.00 NZD
Category: Christchurch City & Banks Peninsula
The most comprehensive historical account in English about the lives of French immigrants in New Zealand in existence, this work tells how, in 1840, New Zealand was nearly divided into two countries--a French South Island and a British North Island. That year, the French government made a play for inf ...Show more
French Akaroa - An attempt to colonise southern New Zealand by Peter Tremewan
$55.00 NZD
Category: Christchurch City & Banks Peninsula | Reading Level: very good
While the British were sending settlers to the North Island in 1840, the French were sending them to the South Island. This book looks at the elaborate French government-backed plans to settle and annex 'Southern New Zealand' - and at what the French did when they found the British had got there first. ...Show more
Gadfly - The Life and Times of James Shelley by Ian Carter
$42.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
In this biography of the Director of Broadcasting in the 1930s and 1940s, Ian Carter gives a sense of Shelley's multi-faceted character, of his dynamism and his view of himself as a grand actor on the stage of life. He also offers insights into the country's cultural life between the wars.