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Presenting New Zealand: An Illustrated History by Temple Philip
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
A magnificent profile charting New Zealands geography, ecology, social and cultural history, economy and politics enriched throughout by historical artworks, maps and archive photography.
The Last True Explorer: Into Darkest New Guinea by Philip Temple
39.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: good
Longlist, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2003 (Non-Fiction: Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture Section) The age of exploration came to an end in the 1960s, when the solar topee, compass and trouble-with-the-natives gave way to satellite surveillance and helicopters. Philip Temple was one of the last ...Show more
The Sea and the Snow: How We Reached and Climbed a Volcano at the Ends of the Earth by Philip Temple
45.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
HEARD ISLAND, an improbably remote speck in the far Southern Ocean, lies four thousand kilometres to the south-west of Australia-with Antarctica its nearest continent. By 1964 it had been the object of a number of expeditions, but none reaching the summit of its 9000-foot volcanic peak 'Big Ben'. In tha ...Show more
White Shadows, Memories of Marienbad by Philip Temple
27.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Marienbad, the central European spa resort, is immortalised in the romantic imagination for its legendary doomed love affairs - Goethe and Ulrike von Levetzow, Chopin and Marie Wodzinska, Edward VII and Mizzi Pistl, Franz Kafka and Felice Bauer. In a Marienbad winter, within its ambience of history and ...Show more