Dear Colin, Dear Ron - The Selected Letters of Colin McCahon and Ron Reilly by Peter Simpson
$65.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | 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
Alpine Panorama: A view to a climb by Andy Buchanan
$60.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
For lovers of the great outdoors and those captivated by the silent allure of Canterbury’s alpine horizon, Andy Buchanan’s Alpine Panorama: A view to a climb is a celebration of nature’s majesty and a tribute to the enduring connection between man and mountain. The distant alpine skyline served as a mag ...Show more
Ultimate Road Trips: Aotearoa New Zealand by Brett Atkinson
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: Ultimate Ser.
Ultimate Road Trips: Aotearoa New Zealand is your inspirational and comprehensive touring guide to New Zealand, featuring 36 road trips across the North and South islands. From coastal journeys exploring the country's beaches and bays, to inland adventures through rugged volcanic and alpine landscapes, ...Show more
Whakawhetai: Gratitude - A Daily Bilingual Journal by Hira Nathan
$37.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
A beautiful bilingual gratitude journal to help improve your te reo and your life. Kia ū ki te pai, kia whai hua ai. Hold on to what is good and good things will follow. An inspirational, bilingual gratitude journal, based on the Māori holistic approach to health, hauora. Discover the four dimens ...Show more
Ngatokimatawhaorua - The Biography of a Waka by Jeff Evans
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
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
Still Standing - A Memoir by Anna Louisa de Launey Crighton
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
For decades, whenever a heritage building in Christchurch has been under threat, especially in the aftermath of the 2010- 11 earthquakes, one woman has consistently defended this city's architecture and history against shortsightedness and the threat of bulldozers - Dame Anna Crighton. Fearless and art ...Show more
Pounamu Treasures - Ngā Taonga Pounamu by Russell Beck; Maika Mason
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Pounamu, or jade, is one of New Zealand's most treasured natural resources, celebrated for its rich beauty and significance to the Māori people. Pounamu Treasures - Ngā Taonga Pounamu is a simple and stylish collection of object photographs that honours the stone in its many forms. Respected pounamu spe ...Show more
A History of New Zealand Women by Barbara Brookes
$70.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
What would a history of New Zealand look like that rejected Thomas Carlyle's definition of history as 'the biography of great men', and focused instead on the experiences of women? One that shifted the angle of vision and examined the stages of this country's development from the points of view of wives ...Show more
Blood & Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand by Jared Davidson
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: 1st
'Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard labour men guarded by other men with guns. Men moving heavy metal. Men picking at the earth. Over and over again. This was the reality of nineteenth-century New Zealand.' Forced labour haunts the ...Show more
Foraging New Zealand: Over 250 plants and fungi to forage in New Zealand by Peter Langlands
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
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
Ahuahu: A Conservation journey in Aotearoa New Zealand by David Towns
$80.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Aotearoa New Zealand is renowned among biologists worldwide for spectacular ecological restoration work over the last 50 years, through advances in pest eradication and native species translocation. This book documents the development of these world-leading technologies. It uses examples from throughout ...Show more
Flora - Celebrating Our Botanical World by Editd by Carlos Lehnebach, Claire Regnault, Rebecca Rice, Isaac Te Awa and Rachel Yate
$80.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
This big, glorious big book mines Te Papa's collections to explore and expand upon the way we think about our botanical world and its cultural imprint. A true treasure, it features over 400 selections by an expert, cross-disciplinary museum curatorial team that range from botanical specimens and art to ...Show more