The Commercial Hotel by John Summers
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
When John Summers moved to a small town in the Wairarapa and began to look closely at the less-celebrated aspects of local life - our club rooms, freezing works, night trains, hotel pubs, landfills - he saw something deeper. It was a story about his own life, but mostly about a place and its people. The ...Show more
Not Alone: Walking Te Araroa Trail Through New Zealand by Tim Voors
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
A stunning illustrated memoir of one man's journey across New Zealand's stunning yet challenging Te Araroa Trail. This book documents Voors' adventurous hike across New Zealand's infamous Te Araroa Trail. First, he is alone, but soon meets two women who become his travelling companions and the three of ...Show more
Ithaca by Alie Benge
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
From returning to Ethiopia to find it wasn’t as her memory had left it, to the Australian Army and Bible school, and culminating in an 800-kilometre trek through the Camino, Alie Benge writes of searching and longing for a sense of place – whatever that may be. 'If home is love, can you have a home and ...Show more
There's a Cure for This - A Memoir by Emma Wehipeihana [Emma Espiner]
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
The striking debut memoir from award-winning doctor and writer, Emma Wehipeihana [Emma Espiner]. "I graduated as a doctor in 2020 and arrived into the Covid-19 pandemic with my ta moko on my arm, my hospital lanyard, my stethoscope and a purpose. I don't know why medicine felt like coming home. I had no ...Show more
Ans Westra: A Life in Photography by Paul Moon
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
The photographer Ans Westra, who died in 2023, took hundreds of thousands of images over her long career. Together, those images constitute what is arguably a photo album of Aotearoa. Her dedication and determination sometimes came at a cost but she was focused and driven, overcoming a difficult childho ...Show more
Upstream on the Mataura: A Fly Fisher's Journey to Source by Dougal Rillstone
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
Dougal Rillstone was born in Gore, close to the Mataura River, over seventy years ago. The river was both swimming pool and playground during his childhood. One summer's evening, while he stood chest deep in a long pool, facing downstream towards the fading light, he became mesmerised by the sight of ri ...Show more
50 years, 50 stories: Marlborough the region that turned the wine world upside down
75.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
Tales Of A Vet Nurse by Jade Pengelly
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: very good
The highs and heartbreak of caring for the animals we loveYou never know who or what is going to walk, crawl or slither through the doors of veterinary hospital...Clumsy Luna the Greyhound and her fragile front legs; the tortoise in need of a prosthetic leg; Jock the Saint Bernard and his problematic ey ...Show more
Wild Kinship - Conversations with Conscious Entrepreneurs by Monique Hemmingson
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: very good
Wild Kinship features 28 creative entrepreneurs in a wide range of industries across Australasia who have environmental sustainability at their core. Meet the industry leaders who are foraging a new path and changing the world in their wake. From tiny homes builders, permaculture growers and muesli bar ...Show more
A Young Man's Antarctic Discovery by Maureen Lee
40.00 NZD
Category: Nautical
Diary of New Zealander Clarence Hare on Captain Scott's First Expedition 1901. A likeable young Christchurch man talks his way into joining Robert Falcon Scott's Discovery expedition to remote Antarctica. Also on board as the ship departs New Zealand: 46 men, 25 dogs, 3 cats and 50 sheep. Clarence (Clar ...Show more
Down a Country Road II: More Stories from New Zealand's Back Country by Tony Ormon
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: very good
'Down a Country Road Volume II is an evocative return to a way of life that has largely disappeared. From the explorer pioneers of the nineteenth century to those who continue to inhabit the harsh inland environment today, the wry humour and staunchness, determination and other admirable qualities of th ...Show more
This Pakeha Life - An Unsettled Memoir by Alison Jones
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: very good
This book is about my making sense here, of my becoming and being Pakeha. Every Pakeha becomes a Pakeha in their own way, finding her or his own meaning for that Maori word. This is the story of what it means to me. I have written this book for Pakeha - and other New Zealanders - curious about their sen ...Show more