Birdstories: A History of the Birds of New Zealand by Geoff Norman
$59.99 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A fascinating, in-depth account of New Zealand's birds, which spans their discovery, their place in both Pakeha and Maori worlds, their survival and conservation, and the illustrations and art they have inspired. In 1872, the first instalments of Walter Buller's A History of the Birds of New Zealand ap ...Show more
Down The Bay: A Natural and Cultural History of Abel Tasman National Park by Philip Simpson
$79.99 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction
Abel Tasman National Park was a war-time baby, born in 1942 to protect the wonderful sequence of forested beaches and headlands, and which have become much-loved by both countless New Zealanders and visitors alike. Down the Bay is a tribute to this gem of New Zealand's national park system. Philip Simps ...Show more
Fight for the Forests: The Pivotal Campaigns That Saved New Zealand's Native Forests by Paul Bensemann
$69.99 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The remarkable and inspring story of how New Zealand's native forests were saved between 1960 and 2000. The greatest success stories of the modern environmental movement in New Zealand were the public campaigns to save our native forests, beginning in the 1960s with the battle to stop Lake Manapouri be ...Show more
Galleries of Maoriland: Artists, Collectors and the Māori world, 1880-1910 by Blackley Roger
$75.00 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Galleries of Maoriland introduces us to the many ways in which European colonists to New Zealand (called Pakeha by the indigenous Maori) discovered, created, propagated and romanticised the Maori world at the turn of the century summed up in a popular nickname describing New Zealand; Maoriland. It could ...Show more
Hillary's Antarctica - Adventure, exploration and establishing Scott Base by Nigel Watson
$49.99 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Beautifully illustrated with Jane Ussher's photographs of the hut restoration in Antarctica, plus historic images and never-before-seen ephemera and diary entries, this is a treasure. Sir Edmund and New Zealand were supposed to be a support act to the British Commonwealth Antarctic crossing party. By he ...Show more
Mataatua Wharenui: Te Whare I Hoki Mai by Hirini Moko Mead
$50.00 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction
Mataatua wharenui is the most travelled Maori meeting house in the country. Built in 1875, it was taken to Australia, London and Otago before being returned to Whakatane after more than a century away. The story of Mataatua is part of the story of the desecration of Ngati Awa by the Crown and the fight ...Show more
Tatau: A History of Samoan Tattooing: 2018 by Sean Mallon & Sebastien Galliot
$75.00 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Sāmoan Islands are virtually unique in that tattooing has been continuously practised with indigenous techniques: the design of the full male tattoo, the pe'a, has evolved in subtle ways since the nineteenth century, but remains as elaborate, meaningful and powerful as it ever was. This richly illus ...Show more
The New Zealand Horse by Deborah Coddington
$90.00 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction
Second hand. A magnificent tribute to the New Zealand horse, documenting its pivotal role in the development of the early colony, in farming, transport, war, sport and in our affections. Writer Deborah Coddington and photographer Jane Ussher capture the strength, beauty and mystery of the horse across ...Show more
Wanted - The Search for the Modernist Murals of E. Mervyn Taylor by Bronwyn Holloway-Smith (ed.)
$79.99 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Mervyn Taylor - wood engraver, painter, illustrator, sculptor and designer - was one of the most celebrated New Zealand artists of the 1930s to 1960s. He was highly connected to modernism and nationalism as it was expressed in New Zealand art and literature of the period. In the 1960s he created twelve ...Show more
Whatever it Takes - Pacific Films and John O'Shea 1948-2000 by John Reid
$60.00 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Pacific Films was founded on the belief that without locally made feature films, a country imperils its very identity. Led by its idiosyncratic producer John O'Shea, the story of Pacific Films begins at the emergence of a New Zealand national cinema in the second half of the twentieth century, when Paci ...Show more
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