Life on the Road - Kiwi Trucking Stories by Randolph Covich
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
Kiwi truckies are the unsung heroes of New Zealand - the men and women who make great personal sacrifice and often risk their lives to keep our country running. The people who devote their life, in some way or another, to what is often a hard and lonely passion.Life on the Roadgathers together their fas ...Show more
The Pacific - In the Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill, in which Sam Neill retraces Cook's footsteps, in the 250th anniversary year of Cook's first voyage. Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768 - 250 years ago. These vast waters, ...Show more
Ghost South Road by Scott Hamilton
59.95 NZD
Category: NZ History
The Great South Road was built in 1862 to carry a British army into the Waikato Kingdom. When the British invaded the Waikato in 1863, soldiers shared the road with Maori refugees from Auckland. Today the eroding earthen walls of forts and pa and military cemeteries remember the road's history. They sit ...Show more
He Pa Auroa - A Dictionary and Language Guide for Students of Maori by Ian Cormack
21.95 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori
A Dictionary and Language Guide for Students of Maori
McGinty Musters "Erewhon" by Tony Robinson
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
" McGinty Musters' Erewhon ' is an account of the happenings and experiences of a down country lad who talks himself into a mustering role on the well known high country Canterbury sheep station 'Erewhon'. With no knowledge of mustering, and not even knowing how to work dogs, just with enthusiasm and th ...Show more
See No Evil: New Zealand's Betrayal of the People of West Papua by Maire Leadbeater
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
See No Evil issues a challenge to New Zealanders. The book begins by relating the little-known history of West Papua, but its focus is on the impact of New Zealand's foreign policy on the indigenous Melanesian inhabitants. In the 1950s New Zealand supported self-determination for the former Dutch colony ...Show more
Seek and Destroy by Harrison Paul
85.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
In 2015 No.3 Squadron Royal New Zealand Air Force celebrated 50 years of continuous helicopter operations since it reformed in August 1965. Seek and Destroy is the official history of the machines and personnel that make up the colourful and wide-ranging operations of this unique squadron, which was fir ...Show more
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O'Farrell
27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Series: Seventeen Brushes with Death | Reading Level: very good
AS SELECTED FOR THE ZOE BALL BOOKCLUB, A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, OBSERVER, RED and THE TELEGRAPH.*SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE FOR MEMOIR AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2018* I AM, I AM, I AM is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extr ...Show more
Images of a Nation: Great Barrier: a Journey from the Heart by Dave Hancock
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Photography
Great Barrier is like New Zealand in miniature - sandy beaches, giant forests, unspoilt bush and mountains. Life is laid-back, with few cars, only a handful of shops and no banks. Divided into 3 chapters, this book captures the landscape and the people of Great Barrier Island in beautiful photos and ext ...Show more
Thought for Food: Why What We Eat Matters (BWB Texts) by John D. Potter
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
We are no longer like our ancestors. We no longer depend on our skills as foragers, gatherers, scavengers, hunters and fishers for food. We are only part-time food raisers at best. . . Our biology, on the other hand, has changed far less. Now there is a mismatch between who we are and what we eat. And i ...Show more
Better Lives: Migration, Wellbeing and New Zealand (BWB Texts) by Julie Fry; Peter Wilson
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
Better Lives provides a comprehensive overview of immigration in New Zealand, showing how immigration is not just an economic imperative that needs to be managed, but an opportunity to enhance people's lives.Migration is at historically high levels and more than a quarter of the New Zealand population w ...Show more