Goodbye Maoriland by Bourke Chris
$59.99 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Be it `Tipperary' or `Pokarekare', the morning reveille or the bugle's last post, concert parties at the front or patriotic songs at home, music was central to New Zealand's experience of the First World War. In Good-Bye Maoriland, the acclaimed author of Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular ...Show more
Gordon Walters: New Vision by Lucy Hammonds; Julia Waite; Laurence Simmons
$79.00 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Reading Level: New
A substantial publication, Gordon Walters : New Vision, is being co-published by Auckland Art Gallery and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery to mark the occasion of this exhibition.
New China Eyewitness by Beattie James
$59.99 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Reading Level: Near Fine
New China Eyewitness is the fascinating account of the 1956 visit to the People's Republic of China by a group of prominent New Zealanders - including Roger Duff, James Bertram, Evelyn Page, Angus Ross and Ormond Wilson - and of how Canterbury Museum came to acquire the largest collection of Chinese art ...Show more
Strangers Arrive: Emigrés and the Arts in New Zealand, 1930–1980 by Leonard Bell
$0.00 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction
"None of us had the faintest idea where we were going [but] during 1938–39 . . . the town [Christchurch] was made strangely interesting for anyone like myself, [with the] scattered arrival of 'the refugees'. All at once there were people among us who were actually from Vienna, or Chemnitz, or Berlin . . ...Show more
Teenagers - The rise of youth culture in New Zealand by Chris Brickell
$49.99 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Teenagers is a ground-breaking history of young people in New Zealand from the nineteenth century to the 1960s. Through their diaries and letters, photographs and drawings, we meet young New Zealanders as they transition from children to adults: sealers and bushfellers, factory girls and newspaper boys, ...Show more
Ten x Ten : 100 Favourite Artworks at Te Papa by Athol McCredie
$45.00 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Series: Ten X Ten Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Published to coincide with the imminent opening of the beautiful new art galleries at Te Papa, this book takes an intimate yet expert look at the national art collection. Ten art curators each pick ten art works and tell us why they love/admire/revere/are moved by them. It's an entirely fresh way to app ...Show more
The Face of Nature: An Environmental History of the Otago Peninsula by Jonathan West
$49.95 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction
Bounded by the wild waves of the Pacific on the east, and the more sheltered harbour on the west, the Otago Peninsula is a remarkable landscape. Today a habitat for a diverse array of wildlife including albatrosses, penguins and seals, the Peninsula has undergone dramatic changes since it first attracte ...Show more
Totara by Simpson Phillip
$75.00 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction
Second hand. The 'mighty totara' is one of our most extraordinary trees. Among the biggest and oldest trees in the New Zealand forest, the heart of Maori carving and culture, trailing no. 8 wire as fence posts on settler farms, clambered up in the Pureora protests of the 1980's: the story of New Zealan ...Show more
Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds by Alison Jones; Kuni Jenkins
$39.99 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction
In early 1817 Tuai, a young Ngare Raumati chief from the Bay of Islands, set off for England. He was one of a number of Maori who, after encountering European explorers, traders and missionaries in New Zealand, seized opportunities to travel beyond their familiar shores to Australia, England and Europe ...Show more
Undreamed of ...: 50 Years of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship by Priscilla Pitts; Andrea Hotere
$59.95 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction
In 1966 Michael Illingworth, whose oil painting Adam and Eve appears on the front cover of this book, was awarded the inaugural Frances Hodgkins Fellowship. For the first time in New Zealand a practicing artist was given a studio and paid a salary to make art for a whole year. Fifty years later, the Fra ...Show more
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