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An Exquisite Legacy: The Work and Art of New Zealand Naturalist G.V. Hudson by George Gibbs
$59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
The biography of one of New Zealand's greatest naturalist-artists, G. V.Hudson. George Hudson, 1867-1946, was one of New Zealand's pioneer naturalists, who devoted his life to collecting and describing the New Zealand insect fauna. He amassed what is probably the largest collection of New Zealand insec ...Show more
Searching for Charlie: In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham VC and Bar by Tom Scott
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham is the only combat soldier ever to win the Victoria Cross twice. His acts of bravery in World War II meant he probably deserved six more. The mystery of how a reserved, modest, slightly built farm valuer from New Zealand, could be so ferocious and fearless in battle has i ...Show more
Farm for Life by Tangaroa Walker
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
The awesomely inspiring true story of how Tangaroa Walker turned his life around through farming - and how what he learned can help anyone succeed. Tangaroa Walker's early years weren't easy. Born into a gang family, he was adopted out twice and attended six different schools before he was six. He only ...Show more
Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail: The Diary of a Country Vet by Danielle Hawkins
$37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Due April 2021 Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail is the funny, illuminating diary of a year in the life of a New Zealand farm vet. With a husband and two children, 1200 sheep and 400 cattle, farm dogs and pet lambs, pigs bent on excavation and a goat bent on escape, country life is never dull. From calving ...Show more
The Dolphin: The Life of David Lewis by Ben Lowings
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
David Lewis might be the greatest explorer you've never heard of. This British-born New Zealander was the first person to sail a catamaran around the world, the first - in Ice Bird - to reach Antarctica solo under sail, and the first to make known to Westerners how ancient navigators reached - and coul ...Show more
The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir. 'It's material, make a story out of it,' was the mantra Charlotte Grimshaw grew up with in her literary family. But when her life suddenly turned upside-down, she needed to re-examine the reality of that material. The more she delved i ...Show more
A Path Through the Trees: Mary Sutherland - forester, botanist & women's advocate by Vivien Edwards
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Mary Sutherland was the world's first woman forestry graduate. She emigrated to New Zealand in 1923 and was employed by the State Forest Service. A Path Through the Trees tells the professional and personal story of this remarkable woman.
Colouring My Soul by Kat Maxwell
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
"I write because I find it cleansing. Writing stories is easier for me than regaling them, setting them down on paper makes sure their content doesn’t get mixed up when someone else repeats them. "I write because my stories bruise my brain until they’re written. They fell out of my fingers one day after ...Show more
Sir Bob Charles - The Biography by Geoff Saunders
$59.90 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Sir Bob Charles - The Biography is the first comprehensive biography of Sir Bob Charles. This book begins in working-class rural New Zealand. In 1960 he embarked upon a career that no New Zealander had chosen before - that of a full-time touring professional. As told in Sir Bob Charles -The Biograph ...Show more
Letters from Tove by Tove Jansson; Boel Westin (Editor); Helen Svensson (Editor); Sarah Death (Translator)
$32.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
A virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins Tove Jansson's works, even her famed Moomin books, fairly teem with letters of one kind or another, from messages bobbing in bottles to whole epistolary novels. Fortunately for her countless readers, her life was no different, unfolding a ...Show more
Letters of Denis Glover by Sarah Shieff (editor)
$79.95 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Oh Christ, a bloody ½ witted student, for purposes of an essay, has just come in to ask me what I and Baxter write verse for, and if we mean what we say, or is there something deeper; could we write better verse in England, or here; or do the critics and professors just read a lot into what’s said that ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of James Busby - His Majesty's British Resident in New Zealand by Paul Moon
$43.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
One of the British Empire's most troubling colonial exports in the 19th-century, James Busby is known as the father of the Australian wine industry, the author of New Zealand's Declaration of Independence and a central figure in the early history of independent New Zealand as its British Resident from 1 ...Show more
