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Joseph Banks' Florilegium - Botanical Treasures from Cook's First Voyage by David Mabberley; Mel Gooding; Joe Studholme; Anon
135.00 NZD
Category: Fine Art | Series: Botanical Treasures from Cook's 1st Voyage | Reading Level: new
Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia, and Java, bringing back over 1,300 species that had never ...Show more
Kiwi Mustangs by Steve Holmes
39.99 NZD
Category: Cars & Motorcycles | Series: 1st
The Ford Mustang met with unprecedented popularity on its release in the US over 50 years ago in 1964, and nowhere is the marque more popular than here in New Zealand.Steve Holmes presents an outstanding full-colour selection of privately-owned models residing in New Zealand, and their owners, and he pr ...Show more
Make Her Praises Heard Afar: The Untold story of New Zealand Women in WW1 by Jane Tolerton
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: 1st | Reading Level: very good
The history books tell us that about 550 New Zealand nurses went to World War One while other women stayed home, knitting, fundraising and looking after families and farms while the men were away. But many women went too, as doctors and ambulance drivers, munitions workers and mathematicians, civil serv ...Show more
Martial Law - In Uncertain Times, who Will Survive? by Angus McLean
25.00 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: 1st
When you know a national state of emergency is coming, what do you do? After massive earthquakes rock the capital and the infrastructure begins to crumble, the Government is unable to cope. The power grid is about to collapse. Food shortages are coming. Civil unrest will soon follow. Mark Dobson ...Show more
Matariki: Te Whetu o te Tau by Rangi Matamua
35.00 NZD
Category: Mātauranga Māori | Series: 1st | Reading Level: very good
Te Reo Māori edition. In mid-winter, Matariki rises in the pre-dawn sky, and its observation is celebrated with incantations on hilltops at dawn, balls, exhibitions, dinners and a vast number of events. The Matariki tradition has been re-established, and its regeneration coincides with a growing interes ...Show more
Metamorphosis: A Scientist's Story by Glen Metcalf
30.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: 1st | Reading Level: near fine
Metamorphosis is the story of one woman's transformation from a traditional Kiwi housewife of the 1950s into an internationally known scientist. Born in 1926, married at 21 and a mother shortly after, Glen Metcalf's life changed when at age 35 she met Dr Donald Beaven, the founding professor of the Chri ...Show more
Nothing to See by Pip Adam
30.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: 1st | Reading Level: very good
It’s 1994. Peggy and Greta are learning how to live sober. They go to meetings and they ring their support person, Diane. They have just enough money for one Tom Yum between them, but mostly they eat carrot sandwiches. They volunteer at the Salvation Army shop, and sometimes they sleep with men for mone ...Show more
Party Legend by Sam Duckor Jones
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: 1st
Sam Duckor Jones’s first poetry collection was a tour of small towns, overgrown lawns, and giant clay men. In Party Legend he turns once again to questions of existence but at an even bigger scale. These are poems about creation, God, intimacy, the surreality of political rhetoric, misunderstandings at ...Show more
Patu: The New Zealand Wars by Gavin Bishop
39.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction | Series: 1st
A large-format, stunning visual history of the New Zealand Wars of the 1800s, suitable for children and adults, by the multiple-award-winning Gavin BishopDiscover the key people, perspectives and battles of the New Zealand Wars in this powerfully told and richly illustrated visual history by Gavin Bisho ...Show more
Retro Caravans: Vantastic Kiwi Collections by Don Jessen
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: 1st
The kiwi retro caravan craze is in full bloom - clear from the ever-increasing number of vans parked up at idyllic holiday spots, vans spotted at car events around the country, the magazines and online chatter on the subject, and a general yearning among the population for the sort of carefree holidayin ...Show more
Smoke and Mirrors by Angus McLean
25.00 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: 1st
What the readers think: 5 stars - The intensity and vividness is so acute, you can practically taste the sweat and smell the gunsmoke. 5 stars - an explosive, action-packed story that sometimes moves at the speed of light. 5 stars - very good at describing action to where I felt like I was i ...Show more
Song of a Young Country by Neil Colquhoun (editor)
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: 1st
An illustrated New Zealand history in the words and music of songs. This is a totally revised and enlarged edition of a classic of NZ publishing; the 1972 edition has been out of print for decades. This is rich, poetic Kiwi cultural treasure - the songs of the pioneers: whalers, sealers, gumdiggers, gol ...Show more