Antarctic Journeys by Philippa Werry
$27.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Antarctica is a fascinating place - it has no native inhabitants, and it's very remote, which means everyone who goes there - today or in the past - has a special reason for wanting to go. It's a place that children can only imagine, because they cannot go there. This book is about the journeys that ce ...Show more
Antiques in the Antipodes - The story of a shop by Yvonne Sanders
$69.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Description: Yvonne Sanders Ltd is not only an Auckland icon but one of Australasia's largest and most colourful antique stores. This sumptuous book tells the story of the shop and its owner. It features over 400 photographs and the fascinating stories behind collectors, decorators, colleagues and craft ...Show more
Aotearoa Lost Worlds by Dave Gunson
$19.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction
Aotearoa New Zealand has changed dramatically in its size and nature throughout prehistory. It has also seen a great diversity of animals and plants - dinosaurs, great sea reptiles, the largest-ever bird of prey, supergiant penguins, crocodiles, early mammals and giant moa - most of them unique to these ...Show more
Architectural Drawings of Christ's College
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction
The Christ’s College campus in Christchurch is unquestionably one of the most remarkable collections of buildings in New Zealand, but there are few publications which focus solely on its architecture. To produce this book, Sir Miles Warren, the architect for Christ’s College for 43 years, enlisted fello ...Show more
Are We There Yet? The Future of the Treaty of Waitangi by Gareth Morgan & Susan Guthrie
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction
Three questions: 'Where have we got to with the Treaty of Waitangi?'; 'Is where we have got to a good place?' and 'Where do we go from here?' Simple questions we thought. But nothing is simple when you start asking questions about the Treaty of Waitangi. Two years later we have emerged battered and brui ...Show more
Around and About Aotearoa by Dave Gunston
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction
Who built New Zealand's first car? Or our first aeroplane? Where was our first bread baked? Ever wondered which pie is Aotearoa's favourite? Or our favourite ice cream? Which lake could swallow the Auckland Sky Tower with plenty of room to spare? Where's our longest bridge? Or our shortest river? What d ...Show more
Art and About: A Pocket Guide to Wellington's Public Art by Frances Sutton
$19.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction
DoP 2008 spiral binding WELLINGTON Brings together the names, dates and stories behing the works that make Wellington the sculpture capital of New Zealand. Also included is a map showing the locations of all the most interesting public art around the city
As You Will - Carnegie Libraries of the South Pacific by Mickey Smith
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction
In her book, As You Will: Carnegie Libraries of the South Pacific, artist Mickey Smith documents the historic legacy of 23 Carnegie Libraries erected across the South Pacific, including 18 in NZ. Named after the successful Scottish-American industrialist Andrew Carnegie, his philanthropic trust establis ...Show more
At the Bach with Rob Roy by Billie Taylor
$29.99 NZD
$55.95 (46% off)
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction
An intimate look at the iconic Kiwi bach belonging to the Roy family at Te Horo beach on the Kapiti Coast. "Rob's story gives an amusing and awe inspiring insight into how the bach elvolved out of the remanants of war". This tells a personal story but also presents images that many kiwi's will relate to ...Show more
At the End of Darwin Road by Fiona Kidman
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
This absorbing memoir explores the first half of writer Fiona Kidman's life, notably in Kerikeri in Northland. From the distance of France, she reconsiders the past. A vivid memoir of place and family, and of becoming a writer. First published March 2008.
Auckland - The Twentieth-Century Story by Paul Moon
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Auckland: The Twentieth-Century Story journeys through the mosaic of cultures and lifestyles, anxieties and hopes, disasters and triumphs, virtues and vices that led to the transformation of New Zealand's largest city between 1900 and 2000.
Awesome Forces: The Natural Hazards that Threaten New Zealand by Geoff Hicks & Hamish Campbell
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction
Massively revised and updated in 2012, this all-new edition of our bestselling introduction to New Zealand's natural hazards and disasters is now more relevant than ever. Informative, instructive and very generously illustrated - and written by some of New Zealand's leading scientists - this massively r ...Show more