How to Save a Forest by Peter Thomas
35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
‘Trespasser!’ This was the allegation, repeated in a newspaper in 1946, made by the State Forest Service against NRW Thomas for his unauthorised visit to Waipoua Forest. Who saved the Waipoua Kauri Forest of Northland, New Zealand? Why has nothing of any substance been written about the campaign to pr ...Show more
Foraging New Zealand: Over 250 plants and fungi to forage in New Zealand by Peter Langlands
50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
New Zealand is full of incredible, edible wild foods - fruit, fungi and seaweed; berries, herbs and more - you only need to know where to look and how to do it safely. Foraging New Zealand is the ultimate guide to unearthing more than 250 of our tastiest wild plants. Packed with stunning photography, u ...Show more
A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa by Catherine Hammond, Shaun Higgins
65.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
In 1848, two decades after a French inventor mixed daylight with a cocktail of chemicals to fix the view outside his window onto a metal plate, photography arrived in Aotearoa. How did these 'portraits in a machine' reveal Maori and Pakeha to themselves and to each other? Were the first photographs 'a g ...Show more
The Beautiful Afternoon by Airini Beautrais
38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
In The Beautiful Afternoon, award-winning poet and short-story writer Airini Beautrais plumbs history, literature, Star Wars, sea hags, beauty products, tarot, swimwear, environmentalism and pole dancing to deliver a virtuoso inquiry into how we become, and change, who we are. Beautrais surveys the man ...Show more
Dear Colin, Dear Ron - The Selected Letters of Colin McCahon and Ron Reilly by Peter Simpson
65.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
This substantial book of letters selected by esteemed Colin McCahon scholar Peter Simpson shines a light on one of the most remarkable relationships in New Zealand art. The painter Colin McCahon and the librarian Ron O'Reilly first met in 1938, in Dunedin, when McCahon was 19 and O'Reilly 24. They rem ...Show more
BBQ Economics: How Money Works And Why It Matters by Liam Dann
40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
From interest rates to the price of cheese and everything in between, this is an essential guide to the New Zealand economy, how it works and why it matters. Should I fix or float? Is everyone moving to Australia? What's with the price of cheese? Who controls the OCR? What do self-made billionaires know ...Show more
Māori Made Easy Pocket Guide by Scotty Morrison
24.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
Everything you need to speak te reo Māori with confidence This pocket-sized book is your guide to using te reo Māori in every day situations, from introductions to conversations, online and in person. Carry the essentials with you, and develop confidence in: * Basic pronunciation * Greetings * Dates and ...Show more
Titus Angus White & the Maori Captives on Waitemata Harbour 1863/4 by Barbara Francis
45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
In November 1863 at the battle of Rangiriri, over 180 Māori defenders were taken prisoner. They were marched up the Great South Road to Ōtāhuhu, from where they were transferred onto the Waitematā Harbour. There they were held captive on the prison ship Marion for nearly eight months, supervised by thei ...Show more
After the Tampa by Abbas Nazari
28.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
When the Taliban were at the height of their power in 2001, Abbas Nazari's parents were faced with a choice: stay and face persecution in their homeland, or seek security for their young children elsewhere. The family's desperate search for safety took them on a harrowing journey from the mountains of A ...Show more
On Call - The Anatomy of My Life As a Surgeon, a Daughter, a Mother by Ineke Meredith
40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
Frank, sharp-witted and heart-rending, On Call is a stunning memoir by a female Samoan-New Zealand general surgeon about life, death, and the human limits of care As soon as she could, Ineke Meredith left her family home in Samoa for New Zealand, filled with determination not to be like her mother: lovi ...Show more