Kauri by Joanna Orwin
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Nature
One of the largest trees in the world, the kauri is a natural wonder and a New Zealand icon. Its immense trunk has supplied timber for every conceivable use from Maori war canoes to modern European homes. Along the way, the industries that sprang up around it shaped national culture in ways that still e ...Show more
The Brilliance of Birds by Skye Wishart; Edin Whitehead
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Nature
Who knew that the morepork, our only surviving native owl, can turn its head 270 degrees? Or that the bar-tailed godwit triples its body weight before undertaking an epic and continuous migration of 11,000 kilometres? Or that the New Zealand dabchick has an in-built buoyancy system, able to trap or deco ...Show more
Hauturu: History, Flora and Fauna Te Hauturu-o-Toi/Little Barrier Island by Dick Veitch and Lyn Wade
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Nature
Often described as the most intact native ecosystem in the country, Te Hauturu-o-Toi/Little Barrier Island holds a special place in the minds of all New Zealanders interested in preserving our countrys unique natural heritage. Written by experts across a range of fields, there are detailed chapters on t ...Show more
Birdwatching for Beginners in New Zealand: A Complete Guide by Alan Froggatt
19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Nature
With jaw-dropping endemic species such as Kiwi, Kea and Takahe, New Zealand is a birdwatcher's paradise. This book provides comprehensive information and practical advice on every aspect of the subject, including key birding areas, where to find the most sought-after species, how to get close to birds w ...Show more
Butterflies of the South Pacific by Brian and Hamish Patrick
49.95 NZD
Category: NZ Nature | Reading Level: Near Fine
A beautiful and highly portable illustrated guide to the butterflies of New Zealand, Hawaii, Fiji, Kiribati, Tuvalu, French Polynesia and other Pacific Islands. Features life-size and enlarged reproductions. The book also investigates the extraordinary migrations butterflies have achieved across vast oc ...Show more
Birds NZ: Beauty like No Other - 2nd edition by Paul Gibson
69.99 NZD
Category: NZ Nature
This new book is uniquely different from anything else on the market and has been fully updated and expanded for 2018. It is no ordinary book, comprising 320 pages of absolute beauty. An extremely appealing book for everyone. Over 300 birds are detailed, there are 700 photographs, and 50 pages of inform ...Show more
Fight for the Forests: The Pivotal Campaigns That Saved New Zealand's Native Forests by Paul Bensemann
69.99 NZD
Category: NZ Nature | Reading Level: near fine
The remarkable and inspring story of how New Zealand's native forests were saved between 1960 and 2000. The greatest success stories of the modern environmental movement in New Zealand were the public campaigns to save our native forests, beginning in the 1960s with the battle to stop Lake Manapouri be ...Show more
Kakapo: Rescued from the Brink of Extinction by Alison Ballance
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Nature | Reading Level: very good
Kakapo follows the fall and rise of one of the world's most unusual birds, from the brink of extinction, through a roller-coaster ride of hope and loss. One of New Zealand's most threatened species, these charismatic yet mysterious night parrots, are now found only on a small number of predator-free isl ...Show more
Birdstories: A History of the Birds of New Zealand by Geoff Norman
69.99 NZD
Category: NZ Nature | Reading Level: very good
A fascinating, in-depth account of New Zealand's birds, which spans their discovery, their place in both Pakeha and Maori worlds, their survival and conservation, and the illustrations and art they have inspired. In 1872, the first instalments of Walter Buller's A History of the Birds of New Zealand ap ...Show more
Reptiles and Amphibians of New Zealand: A Field Guide by Dylan Van Winkel; Marleen Bayling; Rod Hitchmough
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Nature | Reading Level: near fine
Illustrated with extraordinary new photography, this is the definitive field guide to all of New Zealand's tuatara, geckos, skinks, frogs, marine turtles and marine snakes. From the ancient tuatara, the sole surviving member of its order, to the world's largest collection of long-lived and live-bearing ...Show more
New Zealand Bird Calls (with App) by Lynnette Moon, Geoff Moon, John Kendrick, Karen Baird
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Nature
This book is a 'reprint under consideration'. Author Lynnette Moon gives 60 concise accounts of the country's best-loved birds, covering their habitat, appearance and behaviour. A description of their calls, along with photographs from the magnificent collection of her late husband Geoff Moon completes ...Show more
New Zealand Lichens by MALCOLM, B & N
84.00 NZD
Category: NZ Nature
Out of print, advised 12/10/2007. Fungi can't make their own food. They survive only because they have evolved ways of getting food from other crea tures. A fifth of them have opted for the imaginative solution of taking on algal and bacterial partners which can make food by trapping sunlight. That "lif ...Show more