Nancy Wake: A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine by Peter FitzSimons
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The number one bestselling biography of our greatest war heroine - over 84,000 copies sold in its first two formats. In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a na ve, young journal ...Show more
Buller's Birds of New Zealand: The Complete Work of JG Keulemans by Geoff Norman
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fauna
This accessible new edition of the award-winning classic Buller’s Birds of New Zealand includes the complete set of 95 artworks from both editions of A History of the Birds of New Zealand by Walter Buller and the subsequent supplement, specially photographed and reproduced in full colour using high qual ...Show more
Singing the Trail: The story of Mapping Aotearoa New Zealand by John McCrystal
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
The very first maps were oral maps made by early Polynesian and Maori settlers which were waypoints, described as "survey pegs of memory," lists of places in songs, chants, karakia, and stories that showed direction. Hundreds of years later, the Dutch Abel Tasman sailed here and made the first attempt a ...Show more
New Zealand Mysteries by Scott Bainbridge
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
New Zealand’s history is peppered with mysterious tales of otherworldly beings, strange sightings, inexplicable disappearances and unusual crimes. While some of these stories have been handed down through generations, many of them hail from more recent times. The one thing they all have in common is tha ...Show more
The Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
This bestselling book, the triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, is the unchallenged contemporary reference to the history of New Zealand. New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce f ...Show more
Driving To Treblinka: A Long Search for a Lost Father by Diana Wichtel
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
A Winner in Ockhams New Zealand Book Awards - Both the Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction 2018, and Best First Book Award for General Non-Fiction 2018. As a young child Diana Wichtel is brought up in Vancouver, Canada. Her mother is a Catholic New Zealander, her father a Polish Jew ...Show more
New Zealand's Native Trees (revised edition) by John Dawson, Rob Lucas et al
$130.00 NZD
Category: NZ Flora
A complete revision, of the best selling, award-winning landmark book on New Zealand’s native trees. New Zealand’s Native Trees is a landmark book, the kind that is published only once in a generation. It celebrates our unique and magnificent native forests, and describes and generously illustrates m ...Show more
The Big Smoke: New Zealand Cities 1840-1920 by Ben Schrader
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Secondhand. The pursuit of city life is one of the most important untold stories of New Zealand. The Big Smoke is the first comprehensive history to tell this story, presenting a dynamic and highly illustrated account of city life from 1840 to 1920.It explores such questions as: what did cities look li ...Show more
The Great War For New Zealand - Waikato 1800-2000 by Vincent O'Malley
$80.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
A monumental new account of the defining conflict in New Zealand history. It was war in the Waikato in 1863-64 that shaped the nation in all kinds of ways: setting back Maori and Pakeha relations by several generations and allowing the government to begin to assert the kind of real control over the coun ...Show more
Life at the Top : Tales from Aoraki-Mt.Cook by Genevieve Willoughby
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Life at the Top: tales from Aoraki-Mt. Cook brings to life the stories of those who lived and worked in the Mt. Cook area and explored the magnificent mountains surrounding it. The themes and issues that dominate the development of Mt. Cook are uncovered in the book. The mountains have great spiritual s ...Show more
The Field Guide to New Zealand Geology (revised edition 2009) by Jocelyn Thornton
$50.00 NZD
Category: Geology
This is the first field guide written for the general public and beginners in geology in New Zealand. Now fully revised and updated, it shows travellers in New Zealand something of the tremendous variety of our rocks, minerals and fossils and describes what to look for in many areas where rock formation ...Show more
A Short History of Farming in New Zealand by Gordon McLauchlan
$30.00 NZD
Category: Farming
Gordon McLauchlan continues his bestselling Short History series with an in-depth look into the history of the farming industry in New Zealand. From the early migrant farmers and regional produce trading, to the revolution of refrigeration - opening up global opportunities for our fast-growing export ma ...Show more