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New Zealand's Great Walks: The Complete Guide by Paul Hersey; Shelley Hersey
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Outdoors
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 Ze ...Show more
Trial of Strength - Adventures and Misadventures on the Wild and Remote Subantarctic Islands by Shona Riddell; Cara King (Illustrator)
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
The world's subantarctic islands circle the lower part of the globe below New Zealand, Australia, Africa and South America in the 'Roaring Forties' and 'Furious Fifties' latitudes. They are filled with unique plants and wildlife, constantly buffeted by lashing rain and furious gales, and surrounded by a ...Show more
The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke by Tina Makereti
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
While exhibited as a curiosity, a Maori boy turns his gaze on Victorian London. 'The hour is late. The candle is low. Tomorrow I will see whether it is my friends or a ship homewards I meet. But first I must finish my story for you. My future, my descendant, my mokopuna. Listen.?So begins the tale of Ja ...Show more
To The Mountains: A Collection of New Zealand Alpine Writing by Laurence Fearnley; Paul Hersey
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Outdoors
This stylish and affordable hardback is an exciting compendium of adventure and nature writing, history, philosophy and literature, from the quirky to the sublime. Aimed at real mountaineers as well as the armchair variety.
This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
An utterly compelling recreation of the events that led to one of the last executions in New Zealand. Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral pa ...Show more
A Sinner's Gift by Zoe Beesley
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
After a decade of working in the darkened streets of London, Officer Fergus Toop is back in the highlands of Scotland. Standing in the dim light, with the clouds threatening to break over the hills, hopes of a fresh start are fast becoming a distant memory. Death is a part of him. He can't escape it. Th ...Show more
A Short History of the New Zealand Wars by Gordon McLauchlan
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Following the ongoing success of A Short History of New Zealand, Great Tales of New Zealand History and Great Tales of Rural New Zealand - all reprinted and still going strong - Gordon McLauchlan has turned his masterful storytelling skills to one of the most important periods in this country's history. ...Show more
Great Walks of New Zealand by Craig Potton
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Outdoors
Great Walks of New Zealand is a tribute to New Zealand's eight finest walking tracks, by renowned wilderness photographer Craig Potton. Based on the best-selling Classic Walks of New Zealand, this book has been updated and revised to focus on our Great Walks, a reflection of the international prominence ...Show more
Rotoroa by Head AMY
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
On tiny, isolated Rotoroa Island in the Hauraki Gulf is a treatment facility for alcoholic men. It's here, at the Salvation Army-run home, that three characters at very different points in their lives will find themselves gathered, each for reasons of their own. There is Katherine, known to history as E ...Show more
The Infinite Air by Fiona Kidman
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
"A superbly written novel offering an intriguing interpretation of one of the world s greatest aviators, the glamorous and mysterious Jean Batten. /B>ean Batten became an international icon in the 1930s. A brave, beautiful woman, she made a number of heroic solo flights across the world. The newspape ...Show more
The Hunters : The Precarious Lives of New Zealand's Birds of Prey by Debbie Stewart
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
From an extinct giant eagle and an owl that sounded like the devil, to the morepork we hear calling at night, the falcon that appears on our $20 note and the hawks we see swooping on the grisly remains of dead critters on the road, this book takes a close look at these fascinating birds and the people w ...Show more
Ghost South Road by Scott Hamilton
$59.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
The Great South Road was built in 1862 to carry a British army into the Waikato Kingdom. When the British invaded the Waikato in 1863, soldiers shared the road with Maori refugees from Auckland. Today the eroding earthen walls of forts and pa and military cemeteries remember the road's history. They sit ...Show more
