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Loving All of It - Eminent New Zealanders Write About Growing Old by Gordon McLauchlan (editor)
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
The late baby boomers are starting to reflect on ways to grow old well, and these 30 affecting pieces by prominent New Zealanders over the age of 65 serve as extremely strong pieces of autobiography, as inspiration and as meditation. No Zimmer frames and retirement homes for this lot. The contributors, ...Show more
Stop the Clock - A Memoir on Ageing with Dignity, Grace and Humour by Gordon McLauchlan
11.99 NZD
29.99 (60% off)
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The best way to learn anything is by doing it - this is a maxim that goes back to Aristotle. Gordon McLauchlan agrees. He has concluded that the only way of learning how to manage growing old is by growing old. He doesn't believe that wisdom is necessarily a concomitant of old age but suggests that, whi ...Show more
The Farming of New Zealand - The people and the land by Gordon McLauchlan
19.99 NZD
65.00 (69% off)
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An Illustrated History of New Zealand Agriculture.
The Life and Times of Auckland - The Colourful Story of a City by Gordon McLauchlan
40.00 NZD
Category: Rotorua Books | Reading Level: very good
Gordon McLauchlan presents a biography of Auckland city that reflects his passion for the place. This is a colourful history, filled with anecdotes and asides. Gordon traces the history of settlement in the Auckland region, and illustrates the huge differences in the way the town began and the way it ha ...Show more
The Littledene Club Final by GORDON MCLAUCHLAN
27.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A patchwork of stories by some of New Zealand's top fiction writers creating a wonderfully complex picture of an eventful weekend in a mythical Canterbury town.
The Passionless People Revisited: New Zealanders in the 21st Century by Gordon McLauchlan
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When The Passionless People was first published in 1976 it was a publishing sensation, selling tens of thousands of copies. Its title became part of the language. Over 30 years on - have we changed? Are we still 'smiling zombies'? There is no doubt that this book will be as topical and controversial as ...Show more
The Saltwater Highways - The Story of Ports and Shipping in New Zealand by Gordon McLauchlan
44.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: new
New Zealand, a country ‘rinsed by the sea’, has a shipping story to tell as long and convoluted as its coastline. Thoroughly researched, with an eye for a good yarn but also with an acute sense of the shifting social and political changes over the years, McLauchlan tells an informative and engaging tale ...Show more