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Collision by Joanna Orwin
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Collision - the violent impact of opposing forces; the clash of two different world views and cultures. In 1772 a disastrous collision in the Southern Ocean saw French expedition leader, Monsieur Marc Joseph Marion du Fresne, bring the tall ships Marquis de Castries and Mascarin into the Bay of Islands, ...Show more
Kauri by Joanna Orwin
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
One of the largest trees in the world, the kauri is a natural wonder and a New Zealand icon. Its immense trunk has supplied timber for every conceivable use from Maori war canoes to modern European homes. Along the way, the industries that sprang up around it shaped national culture in ways that still e ...Show more
Owl: A Novel by Joanna Orwin
16.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A dark shape hurtled out of the fog...The bird turned in a curving steep dive, aiming for Tama...The boy was being dragged beneath it, his feet barely brushing the tops of tussocks...Owl and Tama could hardly be more different. Owl has a lot to cope with. He's trying to get used to life without his Dad ...Show more
Riccarton and the Deans Family: History and Heritage by Joanna Orwin
49.99 NZD
Category: Rotorua Books | Reading Level: Near Fine
The story of Riccarton Bush and its association with the Deans family encapsulates the natural and social history of Canterbury. This story began several thousand years ago with an ancient floodplain forest, followed by its long use by Maori. The arrival of the Deans brothers in 1843 to establish the fi ...Show more
Sacrifice by Joanna Orwin
26.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good
THE SACRIFICE is a futuristic novel set in the top of the North Island and the Pacific. Decades earlier, eruptions around the Pacific 'ring of fire', and consequent devastating tsunami, had annihilated Western civilization and technology, along with most of the population. Those who survive revert to hu ...Show more
The Guardian of the Land by Joanna Orwin
19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Guardian of the Land was first published in 1985 by Oxford, winning the 1986 Children's Book of the Year and is an exciting time travel adventure which also has valuable historical and ecological lessons. It has been selected as the fourth title in the Collins Modern New Zealand Classic series.Twelve-ye ...Show more
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