History

This book takes us into the wild – deep into dark forests, to the top of mountains and into the heart of deserts. It addresses our deep yearnings to be awed and inspired by landscapes that remain beyond...

'Although New Zealand was the last sizeable habitable landmass to be settled by humans... the impact on its native forest has been little short of dramatic.' Cultural and art historian Richard Wolfe profiles the devastation of native forests...

In 1954, a young television presenter was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to travel the world finding rare and elusive animals for London Zoo’s collection, and to film the expeditions for the BBC. This is the...

The Most Interesting People You've Never Heard Of tells the tales of the overlooked names of history, the individuals who lived fascinating, absurd, or simply amusing lives but are somehow forgotten, overshadowed by those who were larger, louder...

The story of the famous sheeplifter - James Mackenzie. Original edition of Mackenzie of the Mackenzie Country published in 1946.

From the multi-million-selling historian, the remarkable, unknown Cold War story of how one spy saved the world from nuclear war The year is 1981. Tehran is in violent turmoil in the wake of the Iranian Revolution. The Soviets...

Four men in a lifeboat. Two weeks without food. One impossible choice that would reshape the boundaries between survival and murder. Four men in a lifeboat. Two weeks without food. One impossible choice that would reshape the boundaries...

From the 1870s, a generation of bold women made mountaineering history

James Cook is one of the most contested figures in Aotearoa New Zealand’s past. Today, his name evokes not only exploration and scientific endeavour but also the violence of first encounters and the enduring legacies of colonisation. In...

On May 19, 1942, during WWII, a U-boat in the Gulf of Mexico stalked its prey fifty miles from New Orleans. The submarine set its sights on the freighter Heredia. Most onboard were merchant seamen, but there were also civilians,...

Take a joy ride through 60+ years of America’s most iconic pony car, model by model, with this officially licensed and lavishly illustrated reference. According to many, Mustang is the only vehicle that actually deserves the title “pony car.”...

'A book brimming with deep insight, courage and conscience. Astonishingly beautiful, subtle and simply unforgettable.' Elif Shafak Winner of the Women's Prize Non-Fiction Prize 2026Book of the YearThe Times • Financial Times • Guardian • Observer • Economist...

The goldfields of nineteenth-century Aotearoa New Zealand have long been talked and written about as almost exclusively male places. Many historians have either ignored women completely or mentioned them only as wives or as prostitutes. But they could...

A visual exploration of the Impressionists' love affair with the new thinking about garden design that swept 19th-century France. In the Gardens of Impressionism explores the Impressionists' fascination with gardens, parks and flowers in the context of the...

In the spirit of previous volumes, Damien Lewis reveals the untold stories of the war's most daring and audacious escapes as executed by the world's most famous fighting force, the SAS. Reaching back into the earliest origins of...

Arctic explorer and American visionary Walter Wellman pioneered both polar and trans-Atlantic airship aviation, making history's first attempts at each. Wellman has been cast as a self-promoting egomaniac known mostly for his catastrophic failures. Instead he was a...

A paperback edition of the massive bestselling HB. Charles Upham was the most highly decorated soldier in the Commonwealth forces of WWII, and could arguably be called the bravest soldier of the war. An unassuming stock worker/ valuer...

The devastation caused by the Nazi regime during the Second World War was vast and multifaceted, leaving a profound and lasting impact on the world. In response, the Allies brought the leading civilian and military representatives of wartime...

A major work by a distinguished historian, Garrison World examines the lives of soldiers and families constituting the British military presence in New Zealand and other territories during the nineteenth century. The British Empire's expansion relied on a...

A fascinating and detailed analysis of one of the most iconic works of SurrealismIn 1931, Salvador Dali (1904-89) painted The Persistence of Memory, a work that has become virtually synonymous both with the artist and with Surrealism itself. In...

The Canterbury Mountaineering Club is one of New Zealand's Leading regional climbing clubs. Today members of the Club climb mountains, ski or parapente off them and race through them. When the Club began its life in 1925 as...

Professor Paul Moon is one of New Zealand's most prolific authors; his latest biography on photographer Ans Westra garnered glowing reviews. In this book his meticulous research shows, through selected art works, how imperial art became a form...

The Cold War had been over for two decades when, in 2010, ten Russian agents were arrested in the United States after a decade-long FBI operation. Among the spies were three couples who had lived as Americans for...