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Full Astern : An Illustrated History of New Zealand Shipwrecks by Gavin McLean
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Very Good
The sea may be our highway, but it can charge appallingly high tolls. Our ancestors rightly feared death and destruction at sea. In the last 200 years over 2000 ships have been fatally wrecked on New Zealand shores, sometimes with horrific loss of life. Many more have been salvaged only after epic strug ...Show more
How to Do Local History - Research, Write, Publish: A Guide for Historians and Clients by Gavin McLean
$24.95 NZD
Category: History
Thinking of writing a history? Or commissioning one? Local historians, church and institutional historians, genealogists, thesis-writers, and the people who commission them will welcome How To Do Local History. It is a brief and lively introduction to historical research, writing and publishing by ...Show more
Kiwitown's Port : The Story of Oamaru's Harbour by Gavin McLean
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction (child/Teen) | Reading Level: Near Fine
Colonial New Zealand depended on sea transport, every major or aspiring centre had to have a port, hopefully loading cargo on a 'Home boat. This book traces the history of one such port into the twenty-first century. "Today's heritage object is yesterday's developer's dream."
Shipwrecked: New Zealand Maritime Disasters by Mclean Gavin
$59.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Shipwrecks litter the coasts and reefs of New Zealand. Disasters at sea are no longer the regular occurrence they were in the days when sea travel was the main means of coastal and international transport, yet recent wrecks like the Rena show that perils remain. Shipwrecked retells the voyages of ships ...Show more
Take Off: The Helicopters (NZ) Story by Gavin McLean
$69.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
"Take-Off: The Helicopters (NZ)Story" is full of interesting stories and exciting happenings, from Antarctica to Laos, from New Zealand to Australia. Over 200 superb photos capture many aspects of helicopter work as well as showing them in many challenges, situations and stunning landscapes. Hardback, j ...Show more
The Penguin Book of New Zealand War Writing by Harry Ricketts and Gavin McLean (eds)
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
'The editors ...have cast their nets widely indeed. They have produced a volume that no-one with an interest in wars in which this country has become ensnared should miss reading. The book is a vast treasure trove of material'. - Otago Daily Times Warfare, both at home and abroad, has shaped the way New ...Show more
The Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War by Gavin McLean, Ian McGibbon & Kynan Gentry
$47.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Very Good
2009 first edition, soft cover. Good. Second hand. The New Zealand Wars of the 1840s and 1860s, other nineteenth-century military encounters, the South African War, the First and Second World Wars, Korea, Malaya, Vietnam, the Gulf War, modern-day peacekeeping ...The Penguin Book of New Zealanders at Wa ...Show more
Whare Korero: Best of Reed Writing by Gavin McLean
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Dop 2007, Auckland Structured by decade, this anthology showcases some of the most memorable and well-loved books produced by the country's oldest publishing house, Reed Publishing. Historian Gavin McLean has poured over national archives, private collections and company documents to bring together extr ...Show more
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