Maori Folk-Tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand (3rd edition 1995, facsimile of 1st edition with added index) by James Cowan (index Robin Mitchell)
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: Very Good
Maori Folk-Tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand (3rd edition, facsimile of 1st edition with added index)
Wild Journeys by Bruce Ansley
$36.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Discover a world of wild, mysterious and audacious journeys In Wild Journeys Bruce Ansley retraces the path of the doomed surveyor John Whitcombe across the Southern Alps, follows the raiding party of the northern chief Te Puoho along the West Coast, sails around New Zealand's northern and southern cape ...Show more
Barry Crump - Collected Stories by Barry Crump
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Barry Crump was one of New Zealand's most popular authors ever, selling over 1 million copies of his 24 books between the publishing of A Good Keen Man in 1960 through to his death in 1996. Though the reputation he gained in the wake of his turbulent personal life sometimes overshadows his literary care ...Show more
Inside New Zealand Wildlife by Dave Gunson
$24.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Most New Zealanders will easily recognise and identify our unique wildlife - whether it's a tree weta, common dolphin or a kiwi. We know quite a lot about them - how and where they live, what they do, what they eat and so on. But what makes them tick? What does an insect's eye actually see? Does an eart ...Show more
Ko Taranaki Te Maunga (BWB Texts) by Rachel Buchanan
$14.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
In 1881, colonial troops invaded the village of Parihaka on the Taranaki coast. In an attempt to quell the non-violent direct action taken by the community against land confiscations, the government sent over 1500 troops into the village. Many people were expelled, buildings destroyed, and chiefs Te Whi ...Show more
Pounamu Pounamu by Witi Ihimaera
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Pounamu Pounamu is classic Ihimaera and also classic New Zealand literature. First published in 1972, it was Witi's first book, which as he says in the new introduction 'fulfilled a childhood vow- to write about Maori using his own self and home place'. The vivid stories in this collection not only expl ...Show more
Bluffworld by Patrick Evans
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
'Zum Bullshitter geht der Preis' - so said the great German author-philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (1774). Or did he? Can we trust what we never quite knew about because we never quite got around to reading it in the first place? Is it safe to rely on what we ove ...Show more
Best of the Wool Blacks by Colin Langmead
$19.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Rugby Union football --Caricatures and cartoons. Rugby Union football --Humor. Sheep --Caricatures and cartoons. Sheep --Humor. New Zealand wit and humor, Pictorial.
At the UN: Addresses from Helen Clark's First Term Leading the United Nations Development Programme by Helen Clark
$37.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
At the UN brings together a selection of addresses by Helen Clark to international audiences during her first term leading the UN Development Programme. These speeches reflect Helen Clark's passion for reducing poverty in the world and helping people and nations to plan their own development. They are i ...Show more
Sizing Up the City: Urban Form and Transport in New Zealand by Philippa Howden-Chapman, Keriata Stuart & Ralph Chapman (eds)
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
Making New Zealand's transport sustainable will be one of the challenges of the coming decades. This book collects papers presented at national symposia on sustainable transport and urban form, and other recent writings on sustainability and our built environment. Contributors explain how public and pri ...Show more
Which Native Forest Plant? by Andrew Crowe
$26.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: Which...?
This best-selling classic by Andrew Crowe includes comprehensive information on the identification, ecology and uses of New Zealand's native plants.This best-selling classic by Andrew Crowe includes comprehensive information on the identification, ecology and uses of New Zealand's native plants.Use Andr ...Show more