Epic: Adventures Across Aotearoa (HB) by Ray Salisbury
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
New Zealand is a country synonymous with epic adventure. Over the years, countless sea kayakers, climbers and alpine trampers have attempted journeys across its stunning landscape, and many more dream of following in their tracks. In Epic, the stories of a dozen memorable Kiwi explorers are brought toge ...Show more
A Canoe Before the Wind: An Immigrant Son's Story of Family, Adversity and Courage by Vitale Lafaele
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
An extraordinary memoir of an immigrant son's story of a better future. In 1962, a Samoan family journeyed to New Zealand - a country immigrants once called 'the land of milk and honey' - in search of a better life. Instead, their eldest son, Vitale, arrived in an era of dawn raids by police and immigr ...Show more
Excommunicated - A multi-generational story of leaving the Exclusive Brethren by Craig Hoyle
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A heart-wrenching multigenerational family memoir by an excommunicated member of the Exclusive Brethren. After coming out as gay as a teenager, Craig Hoyle was excommunicated from the New Zealand Exclusive Brethren. The conservative sect was everything he'd ever known - a childhood where television, po ...Show more
50 years, 50 stories: Marlborough the region that turned the wine world upside down
75.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
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
The Boy from Gorge River: From New Zealand's remotest family to the world beyond by Chris Long
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
The story of how an extraordinary childhood shaped an extraordinary life. On the West Coast of the South Island, past deep fiords and snow-capped mountains, Chris Long grew up two days' hike from the nearest road. He was born into the country's most isolated family, his parents committed to freedom from ...Show more
Down South by Bruce Ansley
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
In Down South, writer Bruce Ansley goes on a journey back to his beloved South Island of New Zealand in search of what makes it unique. From Curio Bay to Golden Bay, in Down South writer Bruce Ansley sets off on a vast expedition across the South Island, Te Waipounamu, visiting the places and people ...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
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
John Mulgan and the Greek Left by C.-Dimitris Gounelas; Ruth Parkin-Gounelas
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
In September 1943, New Zealand writer John Mulgan was parachuted by the British Special Services (SOE) into remote mountain terrain in the centre of Nazi-occupied Greece, where he worked with the left-wing resistance to facilitate some of WW2's most successful episodes of guerrilla warfare. This experie ...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
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