The Brilliance of Birds: A New Zealand Adventure by Skye Wishart; Edin Whitehead
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Who knew that the morepork, our forest-dwelling owl, can turn its head 270 degrees? Or that the eastern bar-tailed godwit doubles its body weight before undertaking an epic and continuous migration of 11,000 kilometres? Or that the tui has a specially placed voicebox, enabling it to duet with itself, so ...Show more
The Dressmaker and the Hidden Soldier by Doug Gold
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
The true story of an escaped soldier hiding out in the house of a Greek dressmaker who is secretly a resistance fighter. It's an epic love story against the odds, set during the Nazi occupation of Greece in WW2. Peter Blunden, a New Zealand soldier captured in Crete, jumps from a train and escapes from ...Show more
Re-Food: Exploring the troubled food system of Aotearoa New Zealand by Emily King
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
In Re-food Emily King advocates for a food systems approach to help the troubled food networks of Aotearoa New Zealand - one that takes into account the processes from the farm to the family table. She looks at the best ways forward to address challenges we face with soils, waterways, climate change, f ...Show more
Christchurch Architecture - Revised Edition: A Walking Guide by John Walsh
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: Architecture Walks Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The revised and extended edition of the second in the series of guides to NewZealand's urban architecture by the well-known team of writer John Walsh andphotographer Patrick Reynolds. First published in 2020, this handy pocket-sizedbook suggests a series of city walks that take in both the historic buil ...Show more
High Hopes Big Dreams: 165 New Zealand Small Towns in their twilight by Peter Janssen; Elizabeth Anderson
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Across New Zealand, once flourishing towns have faded into the twilight. Over the years, hopes and dreams turned to disappointment.This rise and fall is linked to our social, economic, and political history. Some of these towns have vanished completely while others have discovered a new purpose and are ...Show more
A Walk a Day - 365 Short Walks in New Zealand by Peter Janssen
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
This fully revised and updated version of Peter Janssen's hugely popular book A Walk A Day has 365 short walks (and a bonus walk for the leap year) meaning locals and overseas visitors will always be able to find a short walk anywhere in New Zealand.
John Mulgan and the Greek Left by C.-Dimitris Gounelas; Ruth Parkin-Gounelas
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
In September 1943, New Zealand writer John Mulgan was parachuted by the British Special Services (SOE) into remote mountain terrain in the centre of Nazi-occupied Greece, where he worked with the left-wing resistance to facilitate some of WW2's most successful episodes of guerrilla warfare. This experie ...Show more
Labour of Love - A Personal History of Midwifery in Aotearoa by Joan Skinner
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Joan Skinner has been a midwife since 1976 and has seen extraordinary change, both in the way women are supported to give birth and in the social and political context in which they become mothers. Labour of Love weaves her own experiences as a midwife into the story of childbirth in Aotearoa: the incre ...Show more
Day Walks of Canterbury & Kaikoura 2011 edition by Mark Pickering
$26.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: Day Walks of New Zealand Ser.
Canterbury presents a great richness of outdoor experiences, from the Kaikoura Coast to the heights of Aoraki/Mt Cook. Day Walks of New Zealand: Canterbury and Kaikoura offers over 60 of the best short excursions throughout the region, selected by well-known outdoors writer Mark Pickering. Whether it be ...Show more
A Fish In the Swim of the World by Ben Brown
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Affecting and evocative, this classic memoir by one of Aotearoa's finest Maori writers is now updated with new material. 'This is a book of memories. Some of them are my own. Some of them belong to others. They are as true and as fallible as any memories-distorted by time and distance and a writer's cho ...Show more
The Burned Letter by Helene Ritchie
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
A New Zealander’s Holocaust Mystery. “Every day, I am in Auschwitz,” she would say. Even though she never had been. During the Holocaust, Lidi, as a teenager, flees from Hitler and the Nazis. Forced to leave behind everyone whom she loves, she eventually arrives in New Zealand as a Jewish refugee, with ...Show more
Not Set in Stone by David Vass
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Between the 1980s and 2015, Dave Vass became one of New Zealand's leading mountaineers. In 'Not Set in Stone' he recounts the beginning of his outdoor life caving and rafting, before turning to climbing, first around Arthur's Pass, and then at Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park. A move to Wanaka saw him ...Show more