Labour of Love - A Personal History of Midwifery in Aotearoa by Joan Skinner
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
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
The Forgotten Prophet: Tāmati Te Ito and his Kaingārara Movement by Jeffrey Sissons
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Te Ito’s vision was one of pan-tribal unity; he wanted to bring together all the people of Taranaki ‘from Mokau to Pātea’. Tāmati Te Ito Ngāmoke led the prophetic Kaingārara movement in Taranaki from 1856. Te Ito was revered by tribal leaders as a prophetic tohunga matakite; but others, including many s ...Show more
Hog, Dogs and a Rifle by Kim Swan
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Hunter, adventurer and general outdoor enthusiast Kim Swan has been entertaining Kiwis for decades with her hunting escapades. In this, her tenth, book, Kim Swan shares her favourite pig-hunting stories from recent years, from the hilarious to the hair-raising and even the heartbreaking. Send Kim out i ...Show more
Southern Celts - Stories from people of irish and Scottish descent in Aotearoa by Celine Kearney
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
’Southern Celts’ is a collection of interviews of New Zealanders who reflect on their connections to their Irish and Scottish cultural backgrounds. These narratives of individuals and families cover a range of related issues, including doing business, speaking and teaching Scottish and Irish Gaelic, pla ...Show more
Tales Of A Vet Nurse by Jade Pengelly
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The highs and heartbreak of caring for the animals we loveYou never know who or what is going to walk, crawl or slither through the doors of veterinary hospital...Clumsy Luna the Greyhound and her fragile front legs; the tortoise in need of a prosthetic leg; Jock the Saint Bernard and his problematic ey ...Show more
Gaylene's Take - Her Life in New Zealand Film by Gaylene Preston
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
From one of our very best filmmakers comes a memoir of filmmaking in Aotearoa New Zealand. Gaylene Preston has always sought out the stories that have not yet been told, and in this book she reveals the challenges and sometimes heartbreak that have come with that ambition. In both wide lens and close-up ...Show more
Sons of a Good Keen Man: Life in the shadow of Barry Crump by The Crump Brothers
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Barry Crump - the man, the myth, the father. 'Barry was never a father to me, but he did become a friend.'- Martin Crump Barry Crump was a titan of New Zealand writing, his semi-autobiographical novels about life as a rugged outdoorsman selling more than a million copies. In his time, he was held up a ...Show more
The Boy from Gorge River: From New Zealand's remotest family to the world beyond by Chris Long
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
The story of how an extraordinary childhood shaped an extraordinary life. On the West Coast of the South Island, past deep fiords and snow-capped mountains, Chris Long grew up two days' hike from the nearest road. He was born into the country's most isolated family, his parents committed to freedom from ...Show more
Gone Bush: A Life in the Backcountry and Beyond by Paul Kilgour
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
An inspiring story of a wanderer, long-distance tramper and hut-bagging legend. Paul Kilgour was bitten by the tramping bug early. He began going on epic trips as a young boy, beyond the farm and along the coast. During these wanderings, he met old folk living simply in tiny huts out the back of farms a ...Show more
Kakapo Keeper by Gay Buckingham
29.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Mr Richard Henry was employed as Chief Conservator based in Dusky Sound, on New Zealand's lower west coast. Henry and Burt are assigned to catch kakapo and kiwi living on the mainland of New Zealand because they're disappearing and may become completely extinct. One day, Burt ponders, people might read ...Show more
Reawakened - Traditional Navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa by Jeff Evans
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
This book features interviews with 10 master navigators who trained under Mau Piailug (1932-2010), the legendary teacher of traditional, non-instrument wayfinding methods for open-ocean voyaging across the Pacific. They were given the status of master navigator by Mau through the Pwo ceremony, and went ...Show more
Zen Heart - What I've Learned from Animals and Life by Mark Vette
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
A cheeky baboon, a cockatoo sending a heading dog out to round up sheep, a family of pukekos crossing the road, a dog saying 'bugger', an octopus taking a photo. Think of an ad you love, or a New Zealand-made movie, and if it has an animal in it chances are Mark Vette was behind it. He's trained almost ...Show more