Kiwi Speak by Justin Brown
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Do you speak Nu Zild? In Kiwi Speak , bestselling author Justin Brown eavesdrops at the dinner table, the school yard, the farm and the sports club to bring us an entertaining dictionary of phrases and expressions - the often hilarious, sometimes baffling New Zealandisms we use in everyday life.
Strangers Arrive - Emigres and the Arts in New Zealand 1930-1980 by Leonard Bell
75.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
From the 1930s through the 1950s, a substantial number of forced migrants - refugees from Nazism, displaced people after World War II and escapees from Communist countries - arrived in New Zealand from Europe. Among them were an extraordinary group of artists and writers, photographers and architects wh ...Show more
Games & dances of the Maori People by Alan Armstrong
29.99 NZD
Category: Maori Tikanga
2nd Edition
Kiwi: A Natural History by Isabel C. Castro
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Nature | Series: Family Guide to New Zealand Wildlife
New Zealand's best-known bird and national icon is the subject of this new and highly accessible title from two experts in their field. There are five recognised species of kiwi, distributed unevenly in locations throughout New Zealand and ranging from the most widespread - the North Island brown kiwi - ...Show more
Guinness Down Under by Smith Rod
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Guinness is a name instantly recognised the world over -- the famous stout has been brewed at St James's Gate in Dublin for over 250 years, and is now brewed under contract in fifty countries and 9 million glasses of Guinness are drunk each day worldwide. Guinness family members, originally in three maj ...Show more
Te Ao Hou: The New World 1820-1920 by Judith Binney; Vincent O¿Malley; Alan Ward
59.99 NZD
Category: Maori History
Te Ao Hou: The New World takes up the increasingly complex history of Maori entwined with Pakeha newcomers from about 1830. As the new world unfolded, Maori independence was hotly contested; Maori held as tightly as they could to their authority over the land, while the Crown sought to loosen it. War br ...Show more
Te Ao Hurihuri - The Changing World 1921-2014 by Aroha Harris
59.99 NZD
Category: Maori Tikanga
Te Ao Hurihuri: The Changing World shows Maori engaged energetically in building and rebuilding their communities through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as Crown policies re-oriented from the acquisition of Maori land to its development. Maori held fiercely to iwi-specific connectedness, commu ...Show more
Fatu Feu'u On Life & Art by Shona Jennings
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art
Fatu Feu’u is an internationally recognised Samoan-New Zealand artist. He has been pivotal in shaping the interest in contemporary Pacific art globally and nurturing a generation of Pacific artists locally, leading to his reputation as the Father of contemporary Pacific art. In this book, Fatu shares h ...Show more
Island Time - New Zealand's Pacific Futures (BWB Texts) by Damon Salesa
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand is a nation that exists on Pacific Islands, but does not, will not, perhaps cannot, see itself as a Pacific Island nation. Yet turning to the Pacific, argues Damon Salesa, enables us to grasp a fuller understanding of what life is really like on these shores. After all, Salesa argues, in man ...Show more
Kiwi on the Camino : A Walk That Changed My Life by Vivianne Flintoff
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir