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
What Is Left Behind by Tom Weston
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
If Allen Curnow was the stony and austere godhead of New Zealand literary modernism, then Tom Weston (along with his close contemporary David Howard) are tending to the altar, counting the mala beads, and ensuring the continuation of the elder's example. It is something of a study, to observe how Weston ...Show more