
Digging up Marlborough's Past
PAT AKERBLOM
Akerblom captures glimpses of Marlborough's history and the hardships, tragedies and achievements of Marlborough's pioneers.
PAT AKERBLOM
Akerblom captures glimpses of Marlborough's history and the hardships, tragedies and achievements of Marlborough's pioneers.
PAT AKERBLOM
A collection of the Mills family history and much information about the life and times of Charles Houghton Mills.
PAT AKERBLOM
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JEANETTE APLIN
Set on remote Stephens Island, famous for its wildlife and pre-historic Tuatara, this is a story about self-discovery and the lighthouse community far away from the everyday world.
JEANETTE APLIN
Sequel to The Lighthouse Keeper's Wife, has moved south from rugged Stephens Island to remote Dog Island.
JEANETTE APLIN
Jeanette Aplin and husband Pip have built a small home on the sparsely populated D'Urville Island. Most of the time on her own, she comes to form a special relationship with kunekune pigs.
BETTY ARCHER & FAMILY
A compilation written by two generations of the Archer family of the Tennyson Inlet of the Marlborough Sounds.
KEN BERRY
A 'District History' of Koromiko. An entertaining record of Koromiko and its past people.
KEN BERRY
An outline of the history of Marlborough, particularly Marlborough
County Council and the various Road Boards which amalgamated to form the local authority.
BRUCE E. COLLINS
A detail of New Zealand's worst shipwreck of the 20th century. In 1909 the Penguin sank near Wellington with the loss of 72 lives, with only one survivor Ada Hannam.
MARION DAY
Living, Feasting and Writing deep in the Marlborough Sounds. A showcase of Marion's life in Clova Bay including local history and everyday living in a small, isolated community.
MARION DAY
Spiny Sebastian Starfish is searching for his breakfast when he is hooked, hauled up into a boat and whisked away from his bay. What is going to happen to him?
DON GRADY
A detailed history of the Perano family who operated whaling stations inside the Tory Channel in the Cook Strait for half a century.
HEATHER HEBERLEY
An inspiring story of New Zealand women, many of whom call themselves "just ordinary" in the Fishing Industry.
HEATHER HEBERLEY
HEATHER HEBERLEY
A sequel to Weather Permitting, of Heberley's adventures on land and sea, and the life her family lived on Arapawa Island.
HEATHER HEBERLEY
Stories of Great Sounds Women, who spent most or all of their life in the Sounds. It details the livelihood of a now vanished way of living.
BARRY HOLDAWAY
A detail of the "capital" comprising of hotels, wool stores and wharf structures which formed along the Wairau River in Marlborough, which eventually declined and is unknown of today.
HENRY D. KELLY
This centennial history of Picton explores the first Maori inhabitants, the presence of Captain Cook and the early whalers. It was first published in 1976.
EDITED BY JULIE KENNEDY
Anthology created by Picton Poets. From free verse to rhyming, haiku to ballad. Poems from eleven different poets.
JULIE KENNEDY
Katherine Mansfield left New Zealand at 19 to become a writer. This book quotes extensively from Mansfield and her relatives, and traces the links she and her family had with the Sounds.
$30
TOM KENNEDY
A history of the Bay in Marlborough Sounds from 1832 - 2000.
TOM KENNEDY
Sequel to Ngakuta Bay, with further history of the the Bay.
TOM KENNEDY
The last of the set of three handbooks detailing the history of Ngakuta Bay.
LORNA MANSON
Lorna tells the story of Cockle Cove of the Bay of Many Coves in the Marlborough Sounds. The book details the unique setting and life of of the Manson family.
ROB. MERRIFILED
A history of building and operating the Main North Line from Picton to Kaikoura.
ROB. MERRIFIELD
A detail of rebuilding KiwiRail's Main North Line since the Kaikoura earthquake of 14 November 2016.
TOM O'CONNOR
A remarkable story of mystery, suspense, acute danger and extraordinary courage - a modern shipwreck which could have so easily taken hundreds to their death.
R.J. PATERSON
The Titirangi/Waitui Story of the Patersons 1929-1977.
Complied by HOKI PERANO
A collection of photographs and historical information brought together by the ex-whalers of the Tory Channel Whaling Enterprise.
A Centennial Souvenir of the Picton Rowing Club, detailing the Clubs history from 1885-1985.
MABEL POLLOCK
Pollock details their life as children, who got shifted from one lighthouse to the next and gives tribute to the great guy her dad was.
KAREN STADE
The Memoir of Captain Henry Rose, who went to sea at 14-years-old and rose to command some of the fastest clipper ships in the world.
ALISON SUTHERLAND
A fascinating account of the animals that sailed with Captain James Cook to the South Pacific, with particular reference to New Zealand.
Written for children, this is the true story of the origins of the critically endangered New Zealand Arapawa Goat, brought here by Captain Cook.
HELEN GODSIFF
Fragments of history from Kenepuru of the Marlborough Sounds.
TED TANGYE
An account of wartime travel which begins with a party of twenty-four Ordinary Seamen, which eventuates to a lucky thirteen.
MIKE TAYLOR
A detailed description of the history of Waikawa School of the Queen Charlotte Sound.
WEKA WRITERS
A Collection of yarns put together by the Weka Writers, of which many stories go back a long way.
K.E.WILKEY
A collection of 60 short stories written by Wilkey the Chief Flying Instructor at the Marlborough Aero Club.
JENNIFER WILKINSON
Wilkinson showcases Triska Blumenfeld's art which was inspired by local village communities that Triska had visited from Bali to India to Italy.
DON WILSON
This book details Patrick Norton's life during the the seven-month voyage of the convict ship Providence from Cove of Cork to Sydney Harbour.