Climbing the Pole: Edmund Hillary & the Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958 by John Thomson
$45.00 NZD
Category: Antarctica & the Sub-Antarctic
In 1957 on the Antarctic Plateau Sir Edmund Hillary, the great New Zealand mountaineer, raced his expedition leader, Vivian Fuchs, to the South Pole for reasons that were never fully explained. Hillary’s spin was that the Pole was there and he had time and fuel to get there first: so he did. Hillary’s a ...Show more
Captain Cook's War & Peace The Royal Navy Years 1755-1768 by John Robson
$49.99 NZD
Category: Captain Cook & Pacific Exploration
In the Footsteps of Adam An Autobiography by Thor Heyerdahl
$32.50 NZD
Category: Captain Cook & Pacific Exploration
The Art of War: New Zealand War Artists in the Field, 1939-1945 by Jenny Haworth
$45.00 NZD
Category: World Military History
Second hand. In the first book of its kind, author Jenny Haworth shows World War II through the eyes of five of New Zealand's commissioned war artists - Peter McIntyre, Austen Deans, Russell Clark, Allan Barns-Graham and John McIndoe. Stationed to the areas where New Zealand soldiers were fighting in t ...Show more
All Formed Up: A History of Wellington Returned and Services' Association, 1917-2007 by Peter Cooke
$40.00 NZD
Category: World Military History | Reading Level: Near Fine
The Returned and Services Association (RSA) has been a significant part of Wellington's social, and at times political structure since 1916. It was founded in April of that year by people who saw a need for welfare, rehabilitation, job-finding and meeting-place services for physically and psychologicall ...Show more
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