Christina's Story : Realities of Family Life on an Isolated Pacific Island, 1938-1956 by Chris Crump
$30.00 NZD
Category: Captain Cook & Pacific Exploration
Chris Crump was a Presbyterian missionary's wife in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) between 1938 and 1956. Her fascinating account of those years is not one of piety and conversion, but about the daily business of living and working among local people and a handful of expatriate Europeans, in what was th ...Show more
Fighting' McKenzie Anzac Chaplain Tribute to a Hero by Col Stringer
$20.00 NZD
Category: Australia
Hughie Edwards - The Fortunate Airman by Arthur Robert Hoyle
$75.00 NZD
Category: Australia
Air Commodore Sir Hughie Idwal Edwards VC, KCMG, CB, DSO, OBE, DFC (1 August 1914 ? 5 August 1982) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force, Governor of Western Australia, and an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be aw ...Show more
Captain James Fairweather Whaler and Shipmaster His Life and Career 1853-1933 by Nancy Rycroft
$32.50 NZD
Category: Antarctica & the Sub-Antarctic
From Venus to Antarctica: The Life of Dumont D'Urville by John Dunmore
$45.00 NZD
Category: Captain Cook & Pacific Exploration | Reading Level: Very Good
Jules-Sebastien-Cesar Dumont D'Urville (1790-1842) undertook three global voyages of exploration and is the navigator who made the single greatest contribution to perfecting the map of the Pacific in the nineteenth century. Learned and energetic, he explored the Pacific from Guam to Antarctica, and from ...Show more
Under a Bomber's Moon: The True Story of Two Airmen at War Over Germany by Stephen Harris
$32.50 NZD
Category: World Military History | Reading Level: Very Good
They were the best of enemies - dedicated, skilled and deadly. In the night skies above wartime Germany an RAF navigator-bomber from New Zealand and a Luftwaffe pilot seek out their targets, testing the gap between success and their own destruction as they cross each other's paths. The odds are heavily ...Show more
The Art of Tonga Ko e Ngaahi 'aait' o tonga by Keith St Cartmail
$40.00 NZD
Category: Captain Cook & Pacific Exploration
A Nurse at War: Emily Peter, 1858-1927 by Joan Woodward & Glenys Mitchell
$37.50 NZD
Category: World Military History
DoP Sept 2008, Christchurch Raised on a remote sheep farm in the Mid Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island, Emily Peters (1858-1927) had a remarkable career as a nurse. In the 1890s she travelled to the United Kingdom to train at Westminster Hospital. She then nursed in England and served as a ...Show more
Visions & Realities France in the Pacific 1695-1995 by John Dunmore
$15.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands