Ray Columbus: The Modfather - The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Pioneer by Ray Columbus
30.00 NZD
42.00 (28% off)
Category: NZ Non- fiction
The Modfather is the first authorised account of Ray Columbus's unique life in music - growing up in the 1950s, early days as a teenage bandleader, stardom at home and abroad, rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous, reflections on an ever-changing music industry - and his ongoing influence.
Dear Alison: A New Zealand Soldier's Story From Stalag 383 by Simon Pollard
30.00 NZD
31.00 (3% off)
Category: NZ Non- fiction
In July 1942 with a notebook and pencil he had bought from a German guard, Dudley Muff started Alison's Book. Dudley was 42 and a prisoner of war in Stalag XVIIIB in Germany and his niece Alison was four and living in Timaru. With humorous entries, sketches and what he called "little men" his story grew ...Show more
Letters from the Bay of Islands - The Story of Marianne Williams by Marianne Williams; Caroline Fitzgerald (ed.)
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
In 1822 Marianne Williams, with her missionary husband Henry and their three small children, left England forever. Their new home, in New Zealand's Bay of Islands, was a remote one-house settlement - the Church Missionary Society mission station headquarters. This was nearly twenty years before the sign ...Show more
Bible and Treaty: Missionaries Among the Maori - a New Perspective by Keith Newman
50.00 NZD
52.00 (3% off)
Category: NZ Non- fiction
Bible & Treaty: Missionaries among the Maori is a complex and colourful adventure of faith, bravery, perseverance and betrayal that seeks to recover lost connections in the story of modern New Zealand. It brings a fresh perspective to the missionary story, from the lead-up to Samuel Marsden's first ...Show more
A Society of Gentlemen - The Untold Story of the First New Zealand Company by Richard Wolfe
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
Most New Zealanders have heard of the New Zealand Company and the Wakefield brothers, and the planned English colonial settlements of Nelson, Wellington and Christchurch. But very few people know that in 1825/26, very early in the story of the European settlement of New Zealand, there was another attemp ...Show more
First Pass Under Heaven - One Man's 4,000-Kilometre Trek Along the Great Wall of China by Nathan Gray
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
The Great Wall of China is the largest man-made structure ever built, stretching for over 4,000 kilometres from central Asia, across the Gobi Desert, through the remote, cold mountains of northern China to end on the shores of the Pacific Ocean. Nathan Gray, a young New Zealand lawyer, wanted to be the ...Show more
In Search of Ancient New Zealand by Hamish Campbell; Gerard Hutching
50.00 NZD
52.00 (3% off)
Category: NZ Non- fiction
second hand. Is the tuatara really a missing link? To what? Who or what were the first 'New Zealanders'? How extensive were New Zealand dinosaurs? Could there have once been New Zealand mammals that haven't yet been discovered? When was New Zealand completely under water, and how do we know? What is ou ...Show more
One Good Run - The Legend of Burt Munro by Tim Hanna
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
Now a motion picture The World s Fastest Indianstarring Sir Anthony Hopkins. One Good Runis the amazing story of Kiwi motorcycling legend, backyard engineering genius and land speed record holder Burt Munro. He broke several international speed records with a motorbike he modified in his Christchurch sh ...Show more
Fish Species of New Zealand: A Photographic Guide by Jorge Hirt-Chabbert
35.00 NZD
38.00 (7% off)
Category: NZ Non- fiction
What kind of dory have you caught? At what depth and where on the continental shelf are trevally most likely to be caught? What other fish are these most likely to be confused with? This book is the result of research and observation of fishes most commonly caught (and sometimes confused) by commercial ...Show more
Te Rongoa Maori: Maori Medicine by P. M. E. Williams
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
Pip Williams, a retired pharmacist living in Northland, has spent his life observing and recording the use by local Maori of native plants for medicinal purposes. Te Rongoa Maoribrings together his observations on 43 New Zealand plants and the health problems they were used to treat, colourfully intersp ...Show more
Fun with Flax: 50 Projects for Beginners by Mick Pendergrast
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
These 50 interesting and entertaining projects are designed to teach beginners the basic skills of the Maori craft of plaiting. Fun with Flax shows how to make items ranging from a simple windmill, a dart and a whistle to more complex puzzles, balls, birds, fish and even a caterpillar. Each project is d ...Show more
Kate's Klassics by Kate Camp
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
Featured on Radio New Zealand National. Kate gives a personal and entertaining insight into 10 great literary classics, beginning with a short synopsis of each work. She attempts to answer some of the key questions of classic literature, i.e. Was Odysseus the inspiration for James Bond? Who is the most ...Show more