Great Kiwi firsts
By: Astral Sligo
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Auckland, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781877505225
Subjects: Miscellanea; Successful people; Curiosities and wonders; History
Description: "Our fern may be silver but we Kiwis love to take that gold medal spot. First to give women the vote, first to climb Mount Everest, first to split the atom ... Great Kiwi firsts combines the great, the good and the just plain crazy in a compendium of Kiwi ingenuity and inspiration with just a touch of oddball"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 295) and index.
Table of contents: title: Touching the skies; title: Through the looking glass to infinity and beyond; title: Groundbreaking need for speed; title: Games we play and things we say; title: First peoples and first steps; title: Either elemental or plastic; title: First to the table; title: Births, deaths and unions; title: Mountains/lakes/oceans/rivers; title: Of birds and bees and dinosaurs; title: First on the cards: first words, letters and betters; title: First wrongs; title: Boundary creators and record makers.