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100 Days That Mapped a Nation by Graeme Lay
65.00 NZD
Category: History
October 2019 marks the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook’s first landfall in New Zealand. One Hundred Days that Mapped a Nation marks this historic occasion by looking at Cook’s intrepid journeys to New Zealand and the Pacific that were unprecedented for the time and had such far-reaching conseque ...Show more
Fletcher of the Bounty by Graeme Lay
37.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
The story of Fletcher Christian, sailor, adventurer and mutineer of the HMS Bounty. On the 28th of April 1789, mutineer Fletcher Christian seized command of the ship HMS Bounty from its captain, William Bligh. Fletcher of the Bounty is a fictional account of the Tahitian voyage, the mutiny and its myste ...Show more
Home & Away: Award-winning Travel Stories by New Zealand Writers by Graeme Lay
35.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Travel is in the Kiwi bloodstream: whether bound for Kaiwaka or Kowloon, we have an insatiable appetite for living out of a suitcase and, in select cases, writing about it. Edited by Graeme Lay, this new anthology presents 35 stories by award-winning members of New Zealand Travel Communicators, or Travc ...Show more
In Search of Paradise - Artists and writers in the colonial South Pacific by Graeme Lay
45.00 NZD
Category: Art
In this lavishly illustrated book, author Graeme Lay presents the lives of twenty-three of the finest artists and writers to have been inspired by the South Pacific, and a rich selection of their works. In Search of Paradise is a compilation of memorable visual and literary journeys, covering two hundre ...Show more
James Cook's Lost World by Graeme Lay
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: James Cook Trilogy 3
On his third and tragic voyage of discovery Captain James Cook traverses the world yet again, increasingly and uncharacteristically brutal toward his crew, and on a fateful course with destiny. It seems that having discovered a new world, we have been doomed to then lose it. The year is 1775. Captain Ja ...Show more
James Cook's New World by Graeme Lay
37.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: James Cook Trilogy 2
The sensational fictionalised account of James Cook's extraordinary second voyage of discovery, from the tropical isles of Polynesia to the icey seas of the great Southern Ocean, the furthest south anyone had ever sailed. James continued to stare at the vast, impenetrable sheet of frozen water. Beyond i ...Show more
Larry & Viv by Graeme Lay
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
“Larry and Viv is an extraordinary piece of first-class writing, built upon a marriage touge research. An impressive piece of first-class authorship.” - Max Cryer 1948. Europe is still shattered by the effects of World War II. For the British, austerity makes life bleak. They may have won the war, but i ...Show more
New Zealand by Graeme Lay
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Globetrotter Travel Pack
The highly successful "Globetrotter Travel Series", which includes Travel Guides, Travel Maps, Road Atlases, Best Of Pocket Guides and In Your Pocket Language Guides, presently covers more than 90 destinations worldwide. The Packs are excellent value, including both a guidebook and a softcover version o ...Show more
The New Zealand Book of the Beach by Graeme Lay (ed)
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The cream of New Zealand's fiction writers with a thematic anthology that is perfect for summer reading. Stories are from established and new award-winning writers. A number of stories have been specially written for this collection Authors are Rhonda Bartle, Norman Bilbrough, Sue Emms, Charlotte Grimsh ...Show more
The Secret Life of James Cook - A Novel by Graeme Lay
37.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: James Cook Trilogy 1
Novelist Graeme Lay re-imagines the peerless navigator James Cook's life up to, and including, his first circumnavigation of the world. A fictionalised account of the famous navigator's early life, The Secret Life of James Cook Cook's youthful ambitions, his early naval career, his marriage to Elizabeth ...Show more
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