I Am New Zealand: Aotearoa Through Many Eyes by Various
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Photography
What's your vision of New Zealand?An inner-city street in the rain, a campervan under a clear and starry night sky, a high-octane sport or a traffic jam of sheep? This book collects a range of personal views of Aotearoa from photographers, both amateur and professional, along with their thoughts on what ...Show more
New Zealand's Great Walks: The Complete Guide by Paul Hersey; Shelley Hersey
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Travel | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand's Great Walks are truly world class. In a country blessed with hundreds of spectacular tracks to choose from, these are considered the best of the best. They pass through some of our most breathtaking landscapes - including golden sand beaches, ancient rainforests and high mountains. New Zea ...Show more
False Divides (BWB Texts) by Lana Lopesi
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Te Moana Nui a Kiwa is the great ocean continent. While it is common to understand ocean and seas as something that divides land, for those Indigenous to the Pacific or the Moana, it was traditionally a connector and an ancestor. Imperialism in the Moana, however, created false divides between islands a ...Show more
A Matter of Fact: Talking Truth in a Post-Truth World (BWB Texts) by Jess Berentson-Shaw
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
We may be in the golden age of information, with access to more facts than ever before. Yet in the time of fake news and post-truth politics, it seems that conspiracy and rumour spread faster than ever and are even harder to debunk. Battling over facts can be exhausting and polarising. For those committ ...Show more
Ko Taranaki Te Maunga (BWB Texts) by Rachel Buchanan
17.99 NZD
Category: Maori History | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
In 1881, colonial troops invaded the village of Parihaka on the Taranaki coast. In an attempt to quell the non-violent direct action taken by the community against land confiscations, the government sent over 1500 troops into the village. Many people were expelled, buildings destroyed, and chiefs Te Whi ...Show more
Guardians of Aotearoa - Protecting New Zealand's Legacies by Johanna Knox
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Buffeted by the forces of modern change, it can be tough to hold onto what we value most, or sometimes, even to slow down and think what that is. This is a book about New Zealanders who have found what they hold dear, and, with an eye on the future, are nurturing and defending it with all their might. T ...Show more
No Bed of Roses - Stories of a life growing up in Thames by Kevin (Chuck) Edwards
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Blood and Tears - A memorial to those killed by tribal and related violence
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
He Kupu Tuku Iho - Ko te Reo Maori te Tatau ki te Ao by Timoti Karetu; Wharehuia Milroy
59.99 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori
Sir Timoti Karetu and Dr Wharehuia Milroy are widely recognised as two of New Zealand's leading teachers and scholars of Maori language and culture. They both taught at The University of Waikato from the 1970s and pursued an innovative approach by teaching language courses in te reo Maori, with tikanga ...Show more
That F Word: Growing up Feminist in Aotearoa by Lizzie Marvelly
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
A wake-up call and a battle-cry for all Kiwi women Lizzie Marvelly tells the story of New Zealand's feminist roots, then traverses the modern landscape, tearing apart areas of gender imbalance and pervading attitudes to Kiwi women. In particular, Lizzie examines how men have been brought up with certain ...Show more
New Zealand Nautical Almanac 204 (2016/17 edition) by National Search and Rescue
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
The official hydrographic publication, giving tides, the list of lights, and the Annual Summary of New Zealand Notices to Mariners. It gives predictions from 1st July until 30th June. This edition retains the astronomical information (times of sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset, etc), however it does ...Show more
Aspiring Daybook: The Diary of Elsie Winslow by Annabel Wilson
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
In Aspiring Daybook, poet Annabel Wilson tells of a year in the life Elsie Winslow, who has just returned from Europe to Wanaka to take care of her terminally ill brother and finds herself thinking about love in ways she didn't expect. Like the mountains that surround her and the lake that greets her ev ...Show more