Towards Democratic Renewal by Palmer Geoffrey and Andrew Butler
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
Towards Democratic Renewal reinforces Palmer and Butler's argument for a robust and democratic framework that will safeguard our political system against future challenges, from climate change to earthquakes, `post-truth' politics and surveillance.
Te Hokowhitu A Tu - The Maori Pioneer Battalion In The First World War by Christopher Pugsley
45.00 NZD
Category: Maori History
Maori soldiers signing up for the First World War representing a formidable fighting force - Te Hokowhitu a Tu, or the Seventy twice-told warriors of the war god, Tumatauenga. Some 2,227 Maori and 458 Pacific Islanders enlisted with the Maori Pioneer Battalion, providing an essential element in the New ...Show more
The Waikato - A History of New Zealand's Greatest River by Paul Moon
69.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
From snow to surf, the Waikato is New Zealand's longest river. This fascinating account takes a historical journey along its 425 kilometre length, uncovering extraordinary reports of the people, places and events along its route. Starting from a desolate, icy volcanic plateau, historian Paul Moon traces ...Show more
The Bulford Kiwi: The Kiwi We Left Behind by Colleen Brown
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Little known story from after WW1, when NZ troops waited months in Sling Camp in southern England after the war ended to get a ship home. * Rioting in the camp led to plans to keep troops busy by cutting a giant Kiwi into the chalk hill behind the camp. * The Bulford Kiwi has become a monument built by ...Show more
Hellholes of the World - A Love Story by David Brown
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Hellholes of the World compiles writings over three decades of travel until the author's untimely death. Part memoir, part travelogue, part reportage.
Odyssey of the Unknown Anzac by Hastings David
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Ten years after the end of World War I, the Sydney Sun reported that an unknown Anzac still lay in a Sydney psychiatric hospital. 'This man . . . was found wandering in a London street during the war,' reported the paper. 'He said he was an Australian soldier. Beyond his first statement that he was a Di ...Show more
Gallipoli to the Somme - Recollections of a New Zealand Infantry Man by Aitken Alexander
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Alexander Aitken was an ordinary soldier with an extraordinary mind. The student who enlisted in 1915 was a mathematical genius who could multiply nine-digit numbers in his head. He took a violin with him to Gallipoli (where field telephone wire substituted for an E-string) and practiced Bach on the Wes ...Show more
Ko Rongowhakaata: Ruku I Te Po, Ruku I Te Ao | The Story of Light and Shadow by Te Papa
39.99 NZD
Category: Maori History | Reading Level: near fine
This book is published to mark the opening of the Ko Rongowhakaata: The Story of Light and Shadow exhibition at Te Papa, which represents the culmination and breadth of Rongowhakaata history and whakaaro (considerations) and has the significant meeting house Te Hau ki Turanga as its central statement of ...Show more
Long Road from a Broken Heart: Jeremy Scotts 52,000km Ride from London to Auckland All Because of a Hole in His Heart. by Jeremy Scott
79.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
As a toddler, Jeremy Scott suffered from a huge hole in his aorta valve that cruelly denied him the opportunity to live the life of a normal healthy child. At just four years of age Jeremy underwent Open Heart Surgery at the hands of renowned surgeon Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes. Thirty four years later with ...Show more
Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-Earth by Ian Nathan
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The definitive history of Peter Jackson's Middle-earth saga, Anything You Can Imagine takes us on a cinematic journey across all six films, featuring brand-new interviews with Peter, his cast & crew. From the early days of daring to dream it could be done, through the highs and lows of making the fi ...Show more
Bono - Rescue Cat Who Helped Me Find My by Helen Brown
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Having survived a brush with cancer, Helen Brown, happily married with three grown children, took stock of her comfortable suburban life and found it wanting. So when she was invited to visit New York, the city that never sleeps, she seized the day and accepted. Perhaps, she mused, she might never retur ...Show more
Many a Muddy Morning by Mark Warren
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
The off-roading, hillseeking and muddymorning adventures of farming legend Mark Warren. Mark Warren is a larger-than-life character of rural New Zealand. He grew up with an obsession with Land Rovers, council tip trucks, bulldozers, hill-country tractors, snow-plows - basically anything with four wheels ...Show more