Crown Lynn - A New Zealand Icon by Valerie Monk
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: very good
Crown Lynn china now has iconic status. From its early days of churning out railway china, Crown Lynn became a hugely successful business and the largest pottery in the Southern Hemisphere. The New Lynn factory closed in 1989, but their domestic ware is now one of New Zealand s hottest collectibles with ...Show more
Eruera: The Teachings of a Maori Elder by Eruera Stirling
40.00 NZD
Category: Maori Tikanga
This book arose from Eruera Stirling's determination to pass on the traditional knowledge entrusted to him in his childhood by tribal elders, and from his wish to explain to a younger generation the deeper meanings of an ancestral way of life. In this outline of tribal history and of contemporary race r ...Show more
Amiria: The Life Story of a Maori Woman by Amiria Manutahi Stirling
40.00 NZD
Category: Maori History
This is the story of Amiria s life and marriage as told to Anne Salmond. Amiria was born on the East Coast at Tuparoa late last century and her story begins with her childhood spent both in her grandmother's raupo hut and the magnificent Williams homestead Kaharau. It takes the reader through her school ...Show more
Being Pakeha Now - Reflections and Recollections of a White Native by Michael King
36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
A reprint of Michael King's seminal book on what it means to be a non-Maori New Zealander.First published in 1985, Being Pakeha Now became a kiwi classic, a strong reply both to Maori who were asserting their own identity and also to Pakeha who were mumbling that they didn't have a strong culture or ide ...Show more
Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Struggle without End by Ranginui Walker
45.00 NZD
Category: Maori History
A revised edition of the best-selling book containing two new chapters covering the last decade and a half. 'The struggle without end continues...' This is a revised edition of Dr Ranginui Walker's best-selling history of Aotearoa, New Zealand, from a Maori perspective. Since the mid-nineteenth century, ...Show more
The Life-Size Guide to the New Zealand Beach by Andrew Crowe
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Nature | Series: The Life-Size Guide to...
Join Andrew Crowe in solving the mysteries of beachcombing. The puzzling flotsam and jetsam - both common and strange - is shown here and explained with clear, life-size colour photographs. Besides providing a simple introduction to New Zealand geology, this book's new approach to the beach shows: *Pebb ...Show more
A Field Guide to the Native Edible Plants of New Zealand by Andrew Crowe
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Nature | Reading Level: near fine
A go-to, illustrated field guide of edible native New Zealand plants, including a section on poisonous plants. In this useful and attractive book, over 190 trees, shrubs, herbs, ferns, mushrooms, lichens and seaweeds are described in detail with information on which part is edible and when, how plants h ...Show more
Captured by Maori - White Female Captives, Sex and Racism on the Nineteenth-Century New Zealand Frontier by Trevor Bentley
36.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
The capture of white women by Maori in the nineteenth century was often accompanied by high hysteria and moral outrage. Trevor Bentley tells these women
Godwits: Long-haul Champions by Keith Woodley
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Nature | Reading Level: Very Good
Godwits: Long-haul champions, an enchanting, wonderfully illustrated book by shorebird expert Keith Woodley, tells the miraculous story of the godwits and their migrations - why and how they do it. It follows the birds on their intrepid journeys, examining the places they visit, be it an estuary in nort ...Show more
The Raupo Pocket Dictionary of Modern Maori: Revised 2009 Edition by P. M. Ryan
32.00 NZD
Category: Maori Tikanga
The Raupo Pocket Dictionary of Modern Maori is a portable reference source for speakers of English and Maori at all levels. This new edition has been fully revised by the author.The Raupo Pocket Dictionary of Modern Maori is a portable reference source for speakers of English and Maori at all levels. Th ...Show more
Te Rongoa Maori: Maori Medicine by P. M. E. Williams
30.00 NZD
Category: Maori Tikanga | Reading Level: very good
Pip Williams, a retired pharmacist living in Northland, has spent his life observing and recording the use by local Maori of native plants for medicinal purposes. Te Rongoa Maoribrings together his observations on 43 New Zealand plants and the health problems they were used to treat, colourfully intersp ...Show more
Te Mahi Kete: Maori Flaxcraft for Beginners by Mick Pendergrast
35.00 NZD
Category: Maori Tikanga
Anyone can learn to make a plaited kete, one of the oldest and most popular of Māori art forms, from the leaves of New Zealand flax (phormium tenax). Te Mahi Kete gives detailed, step-by-step instructions, illustrated with numerous line drawings and black-and-white photographs, for preparing the flax an ...Show more