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Antarctic Partners: 50 Years of NZ and United States Cooperation in Antarctica by Neville Peat
29.99 NZD
49.99 (40% off)
Category: Science
'A partnership well worth celebrating' is how Sir Edmund Hillary sums up the way New Zealand and the United States have worked together in Antarctica over the 50 years since their stations were established on Ross Island in the Ross Sea Region south of New Zealand. Sir Edmund, the leading New Zealand fi ...Show more
Coasting - The Sea Lion and the Lark by Neville Peat
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
There is a new presence on New Zealand's southern coast. Neville Peat, one of New Zealand's finest observers of the natural world, takes the reader on a journey from Otago to the subantarctic and follows the life and migration of a sea lion.
Detours: a Journey Through Small-town New Zealand (a Generation On) by Neville Peat
29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Summer, 1981. A young Neville Peat set out from Cape Reinga on his new 10-speed bike 'Blue', aiming to cycle through small-town New Zealand from north to south, all the way to Stewart Island. The week before Easter, he reached his destination. He wrote a book about it, Detours: A journey through small-t ...Show more
High Country Lark - An Invitation to Paradise by Neville Peat
44.99 NZD
Category: NZ Pictorial | Reading Level: very good
The New Zealand high country holds a special place for us all: it's New Zealand's equivalent of the 'Wild West': a rugged, rustic, spectacularly beautiful frontier. The relationship we have with the hills, mountains and lakes resonants within us all when we hear the words HIGH COUNTRY. Its steep mountai ...Show more
Home is an Island - A Writer's Tribute to New Zealand's Islands by Neville Peat
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
Neville Peat has been a New Zealand writer for over 50 years, and during his working life has visited many of the islands within Aotearoa’s marine realm, from the tropics to Antarctica. This book is about these islands, including Stewart Island/Rakiura, Anchor Island in Tamatea/Dusky Sound, Kāpiti Islan ...Show more
Hurricane Tim by Neville Peat
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
When Tim Wallis's Spitfire crashed at Wanaka airfield in 1996, his accident was reported around the world. This lion-hearted Central Otago man, whose life of risk, adventure and success was the stuff of legend, was, in seconds, literally brought to his knees. Sir Tim Wallis is known as the pilot and hun ...Show more
Hurricane Tim : The Story of Sir Tim Wallis by Neville Peat
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
WHEN Sir Tim Wallis's Spitfire crashed at Wanaka Airport in 1996, the accident was reported around the world. This lion-hearted Southern New Zealander, a legendary figure in the aviation, deer farming and business worlds, was suddenly fighting for his life. A life that had been dynamic, filled with adve ...Show more
Kiwi : NZ's Remarkable Bird by Neville Peat
11.99 NZD
26.95 (55% off)
Category: NZ Natural History
Kiwi : NZ's Remarkable Bird takes a look at this unique creature - its physical characteristics, evolution, life cycle and lifestyle, the hazards it faces and the efforts being made to protect it. Each of the six 'varieties' is described in detail, with photographs and distribution maps. A chapter cover ...Show more
Kiwi: The People's Bird by Neville Peat
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History | Reading Level: very good
Back in 1990, when Neville Peat wrote The Incredible Kiwi, the national bird was in retreat, from habitat loss and the severe impact of predation. It was not well understood, being nocturnal and hidden in the forest. Most Kiwis had never seen their national bird.During the 1990s, saving the kiwi became ...Show more
Land Aspiring - the Story of Mt Aspiring National Park by Peat, Neville
30.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Queenstown: New Zealand's Adventure Capital by Neville Peat
19.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Queenstown is unlike anywhere else in New Zealand. It is the country's tourism mecca, for lots of good reasons - mountains, rivers, lakes, climate, snow sports, tramping, fishing, bungy jumping, and white-water rafting. This book provides a holiday guide to the region, with descriptions of its highlight ...Show more