Peat by Jenner Lynn
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
"Peat starts out as Lynn Jenner's study of the Kāpiti Expressway, built between 2013 and 2017 and passing, at its nearest point, about a kilometre from her own house. She decides to create a kind of archive of the construction of this so-called Road of National Significance. How did it come to be built ...Show more
Funny As by Horan Paul Matthews Philip
$49.99 NZD
$59.99 (16% off)
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good-very good
From the Kiwi Concert Party to The Topp Twins, Billy T. James to Rose Matafeo, Fred Dagg to Flight of the Conchords, New Zealanders have made each other laugh in ways distinctive to these islands. Funny As tells the story of comedy in this country through more than 300 pictures and an engaging text base ...Show more
Cook Voyages Encounters by Janet Davidson
$65.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
Almost 250 years after James Cook first sighted Aotearoa in October 1769, world-wide interest in all aspects of his exploration of the Pacific endures. In this handsome book, widely respected Pacific scholar Janet Davidson details the collection of Maori, Pacific and Native American objects associated w ...Show more
Mid-Century Living: The Butterfly House Collection by Christine Fernyhough; Damian Skinner
$60.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
An incurable collector shares her astonishing collection of vintage New Zealand art, objects and design and her classic 1960s seaside bach. For over 30 years, philanthropist and best-selling author of The Road to Castle Hill Christine Fernyhough has built an extraordinary collection of over 4000 everyd ...Show more
The Life-Size Guide to Native Trees: and Other Common Plants of New Zealand's Native Forest by Andrew Crowe
$24.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: The Life-Size Guide to...
Identifying native trees and other common plants of New Zealand's native forest can be fun for all the family with this new pictorial guide. Match leaves, flowers, seeds, berries and bark against beautiful, life-sized photographs for fast, accurate identification. Written by one of New Zealand's foremos ...Show more
The Hand Guide to the Birds of New Zealand by Derek (ILT) Barrie; Onley Hugh; Heather Robertson
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
A bestseller revised- the new edition of this essential reference for identifying New Zealand birds features its biggest update ever. The Hand Guide to the Birds of New Zealand is a trusted, invaluable reference for lovers of New Zealand birds. Comprehensive and easy to use, this new edition features- 3 ...Show more
#NoFly - Walking the Talk on Climate Change (BWB Texts) by Shaun Hendy
$14.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
What happens when a leading New Zealand scientist (and frequent traveler) rules out flying for a year? From overnight buses to epic train journeys, Shaun Hendy's experiences speak to our desire to do something -anything- in the face of growing climate anxiety. #NoFly confronts the hard questions of one ...Show more
From Taranto to Trieste following the 2nd NZ Division's Italian Campaign, 1943-1945 by Jennifer Mallinson
$49.50 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Taranto to Trieste is an account of the author’s fascinating journey to retrace the actual path of the 2nd New Zealand Division in Italy from its arrival in October 1943 until the end of the European war. Although a personal journey with personal reflections, the real story is about the largely off-the- ...Show more
Relative Strangers: A Mother's Adoption Memoir by Pip Murdoch
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Pip Murdoch offers us a raw and honest account of her personal journey, giving birth and placing her child up for adoption during early seventies New Zealand. Her frank and gritty portrayal is set against a period of rapid social change within a narrow and judgemental environment. Pip gives us intimate ...Show more
Aotea Great Barrier - Land and People by Chris Morton; Pippa Blake (Foreword by); Peter Malcouronne
$69.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
If New Zealand has everything imaginable within a day¿s drive, then Great Barrier Island has pretty much everything within an hour. Rugged basalt bays on the west side, a mountainous interior and white-sand beaches on the east coast, serene one moment, savage the next - it¿s not for nothing the island i ...Show more
The Residents - Made in Wellington by Lucy Revill
$60.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
For five years, Lucy Revill interviewed and photographed Wellingtonians on her blog, The Residents. The experience taught her about her hometown of P?neke, its resilience, and how people's personal style and values are reflected in their private spaces. The Residents: Made in Wellington is the culminati ...Show more
The New New Zealand: Facing Demographic Disruption by Paul Spoonley
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
A BOLD NEW BOOK ON POPULATION TRENDS AND THE NEED TO CONFRONT THEM. In 2030 there may be six million of us. One and a half million of us will live overseas. We will be clustered in Auckland, dependent on migration, and worried about a shortage of workers. We havent planned for this. We need to. This ma ...Show more