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A Sort of Conscience - The Wakefields by Philip Temple
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
This remarkably engaging study of a Wakefield family that played a prominent role in the settlement of New Zealand and other English colonies draws on a rich store of personal letters to paint a portrait of a complex family whose influence crossed the globe. A gripping family story, this volume also pro ...Show more
A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields by Philip Temple
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Wakefield family played a major role in the course of British overseas settlement in the 19th century - in Canada and Australia but most particularly in New Zealand. Winner, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2003 (Non-Fiction: Biography Section)
Canterbury by Arno Gasteiger (intro Philip Temple)
69.95 NZD
Category: Coffee Table Books
One of New Zealand great photographers, Arno Gasteiger, presents his favourite landscape images of Canterbury. The spectacular region of Canterbury, from braided rivers and distinctive plains, to the dramatic Mackenzie Basin as it sweeps up to the Southern Alps, is captured in this new book. The region ...Show more
Central by Arno Gastieger; Philip Temple
59.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shortlistd for the 2004 Montana NZ Book Awards,Illustrative section.Central Otago, a dramatic landscape of big skies, waving tussock and sweeping mountain vistas, occupies a special place in the minds and hearts of everyone who goes there. Rich in myth and history, Central Otago always seems to be evolv ...Show more
I Am Always with You by Philip Temple
34.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Most novels about the Nazi period portray Germans as the perpetrators of war and genocide. This work provides an authentic insight into how ordinary Germans - distinguished only by their artistic skill - suffered under Nazi rule and the catastrophe of war. Vividly told and deeply moving, it tells of one ...Show more
Life as a Novel - A Biography of Maurice Shadbolt Volume One 1932 - 1973 by Philip Temple
25.00 NZD
44.99 (44% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Maurice Shadbolt believed that New Zealanders should tell their own stories, cherish their own myths and believe in their own big lies before they could stand upright in a post-colonial world. Through his fiction, non-fiction and international journalism, he played a leading role in projecting New Zeala ...Show more
Manifesto Aotearoa: 101 Political Poems by Philip Temple; Emma Neale
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A poem is a vote. It chooses freedom of imagination, freedom of critical thought, freedom of speech. A collection of political poems in its very essence argues for the power of the democratic voice. Here New Zealand poets from diverse cultures, young and old, new and seasoned, from the Bay of Islands to ...Show more
MiSTORY a novel by Philip Temple
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Following Annie's strange death, her partner is forced to think about what he has allowed to happen to his life, his community and his country. His diary, kept during the year of The Change, reveals how the example Annie left him, and the mission of his young sister Sophie, drive him to escape the life ...Show more
Mountain: Where the Land Touches the Sky by Philip Temple
59.95 NZD
Category: NZ Outdoors
At the meeting place of land and sky, the majestic peaks of New Zealand's great mountains touch the heart and soul of all who gaze upon them. This stunning collection of photographs brings the majesty of our great mountains to the tourist and local alike. A short intro piece on each mountain written by ...Show more
New Zealand from Above by David Wall & Philip Temple
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Pictorial
New Zealand from Above finds photographer David Wall in the air capturing all aspects of the landscape, from mountains, coasts and national parks to towns, cities and ports. From up high the Land of the Long White Cloud takes on a beauty all of its own and reveals secrets hidden from those on the grou ...Show more
Presenting New Zealand: A Nation's Heritage by Philip Temple
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Secondhand. Lavishly illustrated with over 150 full colour and black and white historical and contemporary photographs, artworks and regional maps, Presenting New Zealand is a quintessential visual and informative account of how the country has developed in relative isolation into the independent natio ...Show more
Presenting New Zealand - An Illustrated History by Philip Temple
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Very Good
Presenting New Zealand is a visually sumptuous and informative account of how the country has developed into the independent nation that the rest of the world recognises today. Starting with the huge rifts of prehistoric times that tore it apart from Gondwana, the book traces the arrival of the first Po ...Show more