Meet You at the Main Divide - A family's story of life on Lake Hawea Station by Geoff Ross; Justine Ross
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: very good
Authors of Every Bastard Says No on giving up their city life for a high-country station in Central Otago In Meet You at the Main Divide, innovators, disrupters, and authors of Every Bastard Says No share the challenge of a lifetime: leaving behind their Herne Bay mansion to farm 10,000 merino sheep on ...Show more
Epic New Zealand Adventurers by Maria Gill
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Childrens Picture Books
Ten true stories of daring and danger from New Zealand adventurers. Race to the South Pole with Sir Edmund Hillary, defend yourself against polar bears near the Magnetic North Pole with Helen Thayer, find the source of the Nile River with Cam McLeay and Garth MacIntyre, circumnavigate the world with 1 ...Show more
Every Effing Inch by Tim Pankhurst
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
When an elderly trio decided to tackle Aotearoa New Zealand’s Te Araroa Trail from Cape Reinga to Bluff, they were asked if they were going to do EFI. What’s that?, they asked. Every F…ing Inch, was the response. Many Te Araroa walkers skip road sections or gnarly mountains or inconvenient rivers or e ...Show more
Grand: Becoming my mother's daughter by Noelle McCarthy
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: very good
The astonishing debut memoir about mothers and daughters, drinking, birth and loss, running away and homecoming from prize-winning writer and broadcaster Noelle McCarthy. "I'll be grand, girl, I've great faith." —Mammy, just before she died. Funny, charismatic and generous; angry, vicious and hurt; in p ...Show more
Letters of a Naturalist - The Field Accounts of Richard Henry of Resolution Island by Richard Treacy Henry; Susanne Hill; John Hill; Victoria Jaenecke
135.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
Richard Henry was New Zealand's first wildlife ranger and champion of our flightless birds. He was appointed caretaker of Resolution Island in 1894, living and working -often alone- for fourteen years in wild and remote Dusky Sound. Henry's perceptive observations and descriptions of the wildlife of D ...Show more
The Wratt Race: from Rutlandshire, England, through Nottingham to New Zealand by Elsie S. Arnold (Curnow)
80.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
Marco Polo: The Remarkable Firsthand Story of the First Kiwis to Sail Around the World by Tony Armit; John Macfarlane
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
In 1951, an 18-year-old Kiwi lad named Tony Armit decided to build a 28-foot wooden yacht. Three years later, he christened her Marco Polo, then with a former school rugby mate, Brian ‘Tig’ Loe, set sail from Auckland on an epic voyage... and whatever adventure may await. In the process, Tony and Tig be ...Show more
A Forager's Life by Helen Lehndorf
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A memoir about belonging and motherhood, told through the author's lifelong passion for wild food. When Helen Lehndorf moves to the city after a childhood living off the land in rural Taranaki, she can't help but feel different from her peers and professors - peculiar, poor. She finds solace in long wal ...Show more
Smithy: Endless Winters & The Spring of '22 by Wayne Smith
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
Wayne Smith is arguably the finest rugby brain in the world - a man the players he coached dubbed 'The Professor'. In Smithy: Endless Winters & The Spring of '22, we'll hear from not only Wayne, but also the women and men who took the Ferns to a World title. In this long-awaited memoir, Wayne Smith ...Show more
Heron MJI: The story of a New Zealand supercar and the man who created it by Patrick Harlow
75.00 NZD
Category: Cars
Learning To Be French (and Failing) - A New Zealander, a Tiny Village & an Ancient Stone House by Anna Bibby
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
What happens when an art gallery owner from New Zealand buys a dilapidated French house on a whim? Anna Bibby owned a successful art gallery in New Zealand until one day, on holiday in France, she bought a falling-down house in a picturesque medieval village. So began the process of renovating her beaut ...Show more
Laughing at the Dark by Barbara Else
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
'My own first memory is the cupboard door, and laughing, erupting with laughter' - a memoir about finding an identity, a voice and laughter. A funny, elegant, moving memoir by one of New Zealand's best-known authors, a woman who finally rebelled against being a handmaiden. By the time Barbara Else was ...Show more