How to Mend a Kea by Janet Hunt
27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Nature
The little kaka that lost its way; the kereru with the broken wing; the tuatara that went floppy; the whio that couldn’t fly, the kea with the broken foot... All these stories and more from Wildbase, the remarkable New Zealand native animal veterinary hospital, told by expert natural history writer Jan ...Show more
The Quiet Forest The Case Against Aerial 1080 by Fiona M F McQueen
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
This informative and well-researched book by Fiona McQueen drives a hole through the New Zealand Department of Conservation's mantra that the deadly and indiscriminate 1080 poison is necessary to protect native birds and other fauna. Anyone who genuinely cares about New Zealand's wonderful environment c ...Show more
Goodbye Maoriland by Bourke Chris
59.99 NZD
Category: Maori History | Reading Level: very good
Be it `Tipperary' or `Pokarekare', the morning reveille or the bugle's last post, concert parties at the front or patriotic songs at home, music was central to New Zealand's experience of the First World War. In Good-Bye Maoriland, the acclaimed author of Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular ...Show more
Out of the Ocean, Into the Fire - History in the rocks, fossils and landforms of Auckland, Northland and Coromandel by Bruce W. Hayward
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
For decades teachers, biologists, geographers and interested members of the public have asked for an up-to-date account of how Northland, Auckland and the Coromandel Peninsula and their landforms were formed. Here, for the first time, is an accessible account designed to be of interest to all levels of ...Show more
The Growth of New Zealand Towns
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
Researcher Hugh Dickey recently completed a book on The Growth of New Zealand Towns. He sees a need for a revised definition of just what urban means in a New Zealand context, based on the urban functions a town provides. But before detailed research is done into the urban functions of each small to med ...Show more
Life on Muzzle: Three Generations on New Zealand's Most Remote Station by Fiona Redfern
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
Remote Muzzle Station in southern Marlborough has captured the hearts and minds of generations, including Fiona Redfern and her parents before her. Fiona grew up and thrived in the splendid isolation, and wouldn't have it any other way. Now Fiona and her husband Guy are running the station and raising t ...Show more
Bird Words - New Zealand Writers on Birds by Elisabeth Easther (ed.)
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Nature | Reading Level: very good
A lively anthology of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, celebrating the birds of Aotearoa.On the skylinea hawklanguidly typinga hunting poemwith its wings.- Hone TuwhareNew Zealand birds have inspired mythology, song, whimsical stories, detailed observation, humour and poetry. There are tales of shooting ...Show more
Emergency Response by Dave Greenberg
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Stories from a life spent in the emergency services - true tales of rescue and adventure. When Dave Greenberg was just 13 years old, he saved a life for the first time, using CPR. He already knew that he wanted to spend his life helping others in times of crisis, and that harrowing event on a city foot ...Show more
Today in New Zealand History by Neill Atkinson
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Dates matter, and they are often a starting point for our engagement with history. For most New Zealanders, days like 6 February or 25 April are laden with significance. They are recognised as markers of important moments in our past; they inspire pride, connection, reflection, or perhaps controversy. S ...Show more
A River Rules My Life by Mona Anderson
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The original and all-time classic of high-country station life in New Zealand Mount Algidus, the author's home, was one of the great high-country sheep stations of Canterbury, New Zealand. It occupied a mountain range between two ice rivers and lay in the very shadow of the Southern Alps. Published with ...Show more
Looking for the Light by Peter Latham
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Photography
New Zealand born landscape photographer Peter Latham presents this epic collection of his most popular gallery fine-art prints, together with numerous new images of the New Zealand landscape, never released before. Attaining success for his photography in art galleries and with thousands of collectors w ...Show more
Juridical Encounters by Dorsett Shaunnagh
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
From 1840 to 1852, the Crown Colony period, the British attempted to impose their own law on New Zealand. In theory Maori, as subjects of the Queen, were to be ruled by British law. But in fact, outside the small, isolated, British settlements, most Maori and many settlers lived according to tikanga . H ...Show more