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Antarctic Partners: 50 Years of NZ and United States Cooperation in Antarctica by Neville Peat
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
'A partnership well worth celebrating' is how Sir Edmund Hillary sums up the way New Zealand and the United States have worked together in Antarctica over the 50 years since their stations were established on Ross Island in the Ross Sea Region south of New Zealand. Sir Edmund, the leading New Zealand fi ...Show more
Home is an Island - A Writer's Tribute to New Zealand's Islands by Neville Peat
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
Neville Peat has been a New Zealand writer for over 50 years, and during his working life has visited many of the islands within Aotearoa’s marine realm, from the tropics to Antarctica. This book is about these islands, including Stewart Island/Rakiura, Anchor Island in Tamatea/Dusky Sound, Kāpiti Islan ...Show more
Shackleton's Whisky - A Spirit of Discovery by Neville Peat
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
A vivid account of Ernest Shackleton's 1907 Antarctic Expedition, and the cases of Mackinlay's single malt whisky that he left behind. The incredible tale of Antarctica, malt whisky and an epic journey. Sir Ernest Shackleton's world fame is founded on the Endurance expedition of 1914-17, an attempt to c ...Show more
The Invading Sea: Coastal hazards and climate change in 21st-century New Zealand by Neville Peat
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
Low-lying coast is a chronically grim frontline of climate change, socially and economically, and the frontline with the most to lose.' New Zealand's coastline is under attack. When cyclones and king tides coincide, there is double trouble at the sea's edge with erosion and flooding. Award-winning autho ...Show more
The Tasman - Biography of an Ocean by Neville Peat
60.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
"I had the ambition to not only go as far as anyone had been before, but as far as it was possible for man to go." - Lieutenant James Cook, 1771. The mighty Tasman Sea casts a spell on all who venture into it. Here, for the first time, is a book that tells its remarkable life story, from its early origi ...Show more
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