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Flying High - The Photography of Lloyd Homer by Simon Nathan
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Pictorial | Reading Level: near fine
'Disaster man' Lloyd Homer photographed events such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and landslides arounf New Zealand for over 35 years. This book features a selection of spectacular colour aerial photohraphs, including high-altitude panoramas, from the GNS Science image library as well as many uniqu ...Show more
Harold Wellman : A Man who Moved New Zealand by Simon Nathan
49.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
The most influential New Zealand geologist of the 20th century, Harold Wellman was the first to recognise one of New Zealand's most extraordinary features: the Alpine Fault that bisects the South Island. Harold Wellman: A Man Who Moved New Zealand is the first biography of this fascinating individual. W ...Show more
The Amazing World of James Hector by Simon Nathan (ed)
26.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
James Hector was astounding. Scottish-born and trained as a surgeon, at 23 he took part in a daring British expedition to survey western Canada, and was given up for dead at a place still known - on account of his accident - as Kicking Horse Pass. Fortunately, he survived. Then head-hunted to carry out ...Show more
Through the Eyes of a Miner: The Photography of Joseph Divis by Simon Nathan
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Miner Joseph Divis, born in Bohemia, photographed life in mining towns Blackball, Waiuta and Waihi where he worked between 1909 and 1935. Although an outsider, Divis loved this country. When he died in 1967 he was one of the last inhabitants in the ghost town of Waiuta, site of one of NZ’s richest gold- ...Show more
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