Katherine Mansfield's Europe - Station to Station by Redmer Yska
50.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Beautifully written and illustrated with maps and stunning photography, Katherine Mansfield's Europe is part travelogue, part literary biography, part detective story and part ghost story. Guided by Mansfield's journals and letters, Redmer Yska traces her restless journey in Europe, seeking out the pla ...Show more
Eruption! Discovering New Zealand Volcanoes by Maria Gill
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Meet Volcanica, the feisty reporter at Magmatic Press who prseents hot facts about volcano science in New Zealand. Discover the four main types of volcano found in this country: stratovolcanoes, shield, caldera and volcanic fields and explore the characteristics of each as demonstrated in data panels a ...Show more
A First Book of Unique New Zealand Bird Songs by Fred van Gessel
30.00 NZD
Category: Sound Books
Whether you're 5 years old or 65, it's never too late to get to know New Zealand's birds, and learning their songs will open your eyes to a whole new world. This beautifully illustrated sound guide is the perfect way to introduce both children and adults to the wonders of bird song.Each of the 12 specie ...Show more
Matariki The Maori New Year by Libby Hakaraia
21.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
This book is an introduction to the star group Matariki. Known in other cultures by names including the Pleiades and the Seven Sisters, Matariki featured strongly in pre-European New Zealand. It marked the beginning of the Māori calendar, and its rising before the sun in late May or early June was gree ...Show more
Dame Suzy D: My Story by Susan Devoy
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
A four-time world squash champion, Dame Susan Devoy has led a remarkably varied life. She's been Race Relations Commissioner, a television star, a newspaper columnist, raised four boys and met Bill Clinton and King Charles. Fiercely driven and wildly competitive, her straight up style and hilarious turn ...Show more
Rush to Riches: Kauri and Gold (The New Zealand Series) by Gordon Ell
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: The New Zealand Series
Colonising New Zealand was as much of a search for wealth as an imperial venture. The rush to exploit the country's gold and kauri is a story of innovation and determination, as well as suspicion and thuggery. The rushes of both industries drew Maori and British, and also Americans, Australians, Dalmati ...Show more
Protest!: Shaping Aotearoa by Mandy Hager
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
A selected history of the protests in New Zealand that shape modern day Aotearoa, starting with the early 1800s, through to anti-nuclear and land rights. Mandy Hager looks at the background, the structure of the protest and how it affected attitudes. Includes a brief look at the Pacific Islands claims f ...Show more
Hero of the Sea: Sir Peter Blake's Mighty Ocean Quests by David Hill; Phoebe Morris
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: David Hill's Kiwi Legends
A stunning biographical picture book for young readers about Sir Peter Blake, world-renowned New Zealand yachtsman, adventurer and environmentalist.'Remember,' he wrote, 'this is the most beautiful world, and it's the only one we've got.'Sir Peter Blake's life was filled with amazing adventures. During ...Show more
Ngatokimatawhaorua - The Biography of a Waka by Jeff Evans
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Ngatokimatawhaorua, the longest waka taua to be built in modern times, is a national taonga and resides at the Treaty Grounds at Waitangi. The inspiration for its construction came from Te Puea Harangi's dream to build seven waka for the 1940 centennial commemorations of the signing of the Treaty of Wai ...Show more
Sylvia and the Birds by Johanna Emeney; Sarah Laing
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Part graphic biography, part practical guide to protecting our bird wildlife, this remarkable book for young readers and their families is fully committed to detailing the wonders of our native birds, the threats they face and how we can help them. Based on the life of 'The Bird Lady', Sylvia Durrant, ...Show more
Mophead: How Your Difference Makes a Difference by Selina Tusitala Marsh
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: Mophead
An inspirational graphic memoir of growing up Pasifika in New Zealand, written and illustrated by our fast-talking PI Poet Laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh. At school, Selina is teased for her big, frizzy hair. Kids call her ‘mophead’. She ties her hair up this way and that way and tries to fit in. Until ...Show more
ANZAC Day: The New Zealand Story by Philippa Werry
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Every year on the 25th of April, thousands of New Zealanders get up very early in the morning to join dawn parade ceremonies around the country. Later, many more people attend Anzac Day services to commemorate the soldiers who died at Gallipoli in 1915 and to celebrate the spirit of the ANZACs.A rich hi ...Show more