First Pass Under Heaven - One Man's 4,000-Kilometre Trek Along the Great Wall of China by Nathan Gray
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
The Great Wall of China is the largest man-made structure ever built, stretching for over 4,000 kilometres from central Asia, across the Gobi Desert, through the remote, cold mountains of northern China to end on the shores of the Pacific Ocean. Nathan Gray, a young New Zealand lawyer, wanted to be the ...Show more
In Search of Ancient New Zealand by Hamish Campbell; Gerard Hutching
50.00 NZD
52.00 (3% off)
Category: NZ Non- fiction
second hand. Is the tuatara really a missing link? To what? Who or what were the first 'New Zealanders'? How extensive were New Zealand dinosaurs? Could there have once been New Zealand mammals that haven't yet been discovered? When was New Zealand completely under water, and how do we know? What is ou ...Show more
One Good Run - The Legend of Burt Munro by Tim Hanna
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
Now a motion picture The World s Fastest Indianstarring Sir Anthony Hopkins. One Good Runis the amazing story of Kiwi motorcycling legend, backyard engineering genius and land speed record holder Burt Munro. He broke several international speed records with a motorbike he modified in his Christchurch sh ...Show more
Fish Species of New Zealand: A Photographic Guide by Jorge Hirt-Chabbert
35.00 NZD
38.00 (7% off)
Category: NZ Non- fiction
What kind of dory have you caught? At what depth and where on the continental shelf are trevally most likely to be caught? What other fish are these most likely to be confused with? This book is the result of research and observation of fishes most commonly caught (and sometimes confused) by commercial ...Show more
Te Rongoa Maori: Maori Medicine by P. M. E. Williams
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
Pip Williams, a retired pharmacist living in Northland, has spent his life observing and recording the use by local Maori of native plants for medicinal purposes. Te Rongoa Maoribrings together his observations on 43 New Zealand plants and the health problems they were used to treat, colourfully intersp ...Show more
Fun with Flax: 50 Projects for Beginners by Mick Pendergrast
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
These 50 interesting and entertaining projects are designed to teach beginners the basic skills of the Maori craft of plaiting. Fun with Flax shows how to make items ranging from a simple windmill, a dart and a whistle to more complex puzzles, balls, birds, fish and even a caterpillar. Each project is d ...Show more
Kate's Klassics by Kate Camp
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
Featured on Radio New Zealand National. Kate gives a personal and entertaining insight into 10 great literary classics, beginning with a short synopsis of each work. She attempts to answer some of the key questions of classic literature, i.e. Was Odysseus the inspiration for James Bond? Who is the most ...Show more
Pakeha Maori - The Extraordinary Story of the Europeans who lived as Maori in early New Zealand by Trevor Bentley
32.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
New edition. This book describes one of the most extraordinary and fascinating stories in NZ history. In the early part of the last century several thousand runaway seamen and escaped convicts settled in Maori communities. Jacky Mamon, John Rutherford, Charlotte Badger and many others this is their larg ...Show more
Reinventing Paradise: How New Zealand is Starting to Earn a Bigger, Sustainable Living in the World Economy by Rod Oram
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
A collection of columns and interviews from Rod Oram about how New Zealand has fared so far in the global market, the unique challenges that lie ahead for us (global warming, political instability, oil shocks, etc.) and the opportunities for to earn a bigger, better, more sustainable living out in the w ...Show more
Ned and Katina - A True Love Story by Patricia Grace
40.00 NZD
41.00 (2% off)
Category: NZ Non- fiction
A TRUE STORY OF LOVE IN WARTIME AND IN PEACE. In Crete during the Second World War a wounded Maori Battalion soldier and a young Cretan woman fall in love when the young infantryman is sheltered by her family. After marrying in Crete, Ned and Katina come back to live in New Zealand, settling in the Far ...Show more
Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders From Polynesian by James Belich
35.00 NZD
47.00 (25% off)
Category: NZ Non- fiction
A new paperback reprint of this best-selling and ground-breaking history. When first published in 1996 Making Peoples was hailed as redefining New Zealand history. It was undoubtedly the most important work of New Zealand history since Keith Sinclair's classic A History of New Zealand. Making Peoples co ...Show more
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh by Evelyn Waugh; Nancy Mitford
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
With an Introduction by Charlotte Mosley 'Their correspondence can make you rock with helpless laughter'Independent on SundayNancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were two of the twentieth century's most amusing and gifted writers, who matched wits and traded literary advice in more than five hundred letters o ...Show more