Epic: Adventures Across Aotearoa (HB) by Ray Salisbury
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
New Zealand is a country synonymous with epic adventure. Over the years, countless sea kayakers, climbers and alpine trampers have attempted journeys across its stunning landscape, and many more dream of following in their tracks. In Epic, the stories of a dozen memorable Kiwi explorers are brought toge ...Show more
A Canoe Before the Wind: An Immigrant Son's Story of Family, Adversity and Courage by Vitale Lafaele
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
An extraordinary memoir of an immigrant son's story of a better future. In 1962, a Samoan family journeyed to New Zealand - a country immigrants once called 'the land of milk and honey' - in search of a better life. Instead, their eldest son, Vitale, arrived in an era of dawn raids by police and immigr ...Show more
John Mulgan and the Greek Left by C.-Dimitris Gounelas; Ruth Parkin-Gounelas
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
In September 1943, New Zealand writer John Mulgan was parachuted by the British Special Services (SOE) into remote mountain terrain in the centre of Nazi-occupied Greece, where he worked with the left-wing resistance to facilitate some of WW2's most successful episodes of guerrilla warfare. This experie ...Show more
Down South by Bruce Ansley
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
In Down South, writer Bruce Ansley goes on a journey back to his beloved South Island of New Zealand in search of what makes it unique. From Curio Bay to Golden Bay, in Down South writer Bruce Ansley sets off on a vast expedition across the South Island, Te Waipounamu, visiting the places and people ...Show more
A Spirit Companion - Celebrating the First 50 Years of the Spirit of Adventure Trust by Roger McDonald
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
For 50 years, people from all walks of life have stepped aboard first the Spirit of Adventure, and today the Spirit of New Zealand Te Waka Herenga Tangata o Aotearoa, for a voyage of personal discovery. They've had fun, made friends, and been given a taste of expanded possibility. Distinguished author R ...Show more
The Unexpected Patient: True Kiwi stories of life, death and unforgettable clinical cases by Himali McInnes
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Stories of life, death and unforgettable clinical cases. A psychiatrist and a patient with supernatural connections. A plastic surgeon and a Whakaari/White Island volcanic eruption survivor. A trauma therapist caught in the aftermath of a violent methamphetamine episode. The Unexpected Patient tells the ...Show more
Grid - The Life and Times of First World War Fighter Ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen
65.00 NZD
Category: Coming Soon
This gripping biography of Air Commodore Keith (Grid) Logan Caldwell CBE, MC,DFC & Bar, Croix de Guerre, tells the story of his remarkable exploits during theFirst World War, by the end of which he was the leader of the revered 74 - Tiger- Squadron, personally credited with the destruction or downin ...Show more
From There to Here - A Memoir by Joe Bennett
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
From Willingdon to Lyttelton, a memoir about love, learning and the journey to thirty. Joe Bennett is the author of countless columns, over twenty books, and now, at long last, a memoir. From There to Here describes a childhood of fishing, cricket, friends, a dog, some mild molestation and a few deat ...Show more
Storms Ahead Rick Dodson: America's Cup champion to Paralympian by Rebecca Hayter
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
In 1997, America's Cup winning strategist Rick Dodson thought he was invincible. He had a happy marriage, a stack of wins in national and international sailing, and was part-owner in one of the world's most technically advanced sailmakers. But a diagnosis of MS (multiple sclerosis) threatened his world. ...Show more
Doctors in Denial - The Forgotten Women in the 'Unfortunate Experiment' by Ronald W Jones
42.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: very good
When Dr Ron Jones joined the staff of National Women's Hospital in Auckland in 1973 as a junior obstetrician and gynaecologist, Professor Herbert Green's study into the natural history of carcinoma in-situ of the cervix (CIS) - later called 'the unfortunate experiment' - had been in progress for seven y ...Show more
Sam Hunt: Off the Road by Colin Hogg
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Thirty years after Hogg and Hunt collaborated on the now-legendary Angel Gear: Off the Road with Sam Hunt, the pair have decided to throw caution to the wind and proceed without doctors' certificates, to create an older, possibly wiser twin to that earlier book. A backstage pass to the private side of ...Show more
Shirley Smith: An Examined Life by Gaitanos Sarah
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Shirley Smith was one of the most remarkable New Zealanders of the 20th century, a woman whose lifelong commitment to social justice, legal reform, gender equality and community service left a profound legacy. She was born in Wellington in 1916. While her childhood was clouded by loss - her mother died ...Show more