A Life on Gorge River - New Zealand's Remotest Family by Robert Long
$30.00 NZD
Category: West Coast | Reading Level: very good
Robert Long and his family - wife Catherine, and children Christan (17) and Robyn (14) - live in complete isolation, in a hut two days' walk south of Haast in South Westland. Robert has lived there for nearly 30 years; Catherine for 20 and the kids all their lives. Their only contact with the outside wo ...Show more
A River Rules My Life by Mona Anderson
$42.50 NZD
Category: West Coast
Secondhand. Here tells the story of Mona Anderson's 23 years on one of the most isolated sheep farms in New Zealand, a 100,000-acre station that occupied most of the country between two great rivers, the Wilberforce and the Rakaia, from their junction back to the Main Divide of the Southern Alps ...Show more
Black Sands and Golden Years 1877-1979: Weheka-Fox Glacier School Jubilee by Margaret Hall
$55.00 NZD
Category: West Coast
Blackball: Our Place by Jo edgar & Jane Wells
$30.00 NZD
Category: West Coast | Reading Level: very good
Castles of Gold : A History of New Zealand's West Coast Irish by Lyndon Fraser
$55.00 NZD
Category: West Coast | Reading Level: very good
Second hand. From the 1860s, the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island was the scene of two major gold strikes, attracting hopefuls from all over the world. Suddenly, where there had been native bush and wide rivers, towns with 400 pubs and accommodation houses had appeared. Amongst the hopefuls wer ...Show more
Charleston: Its Rise and Decline by Irwin Faris
$52.50 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
Famous for its dozens of hotels, one for every 150 people, and its Casino girls, Charleston was New Zealand's classic gold mining town. Springing from nowhere in 1866, Charleston grew into a bustling prosperous centre and just as soon collapsed when the gold was gone. First published in 1941, this is a ...Show more
Charleston: Its Rise and Decline (Capper Reprint) by Irwin Faris
$75.00 NZD
Category: West Coast