Just Shut up and Jump: The Buzzard Airlines Story by Martin, John Cavaick
28.99 NZD
30.00 (3% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Aged 17, guitar slung low. Bright, promising and positive. With our whole lives ahead of us, we are invincible. A decade later as John Martin flew his topdressing plane over the back blocks of Te Puke - a chilly dawn, a girl on a horse and a friendly wave, a spluttering engine, crash and burn. John Mart ...Show more
Olympian Soldier, The by G C Cooke
69.99 NZD
72.00 (2% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
DoP 2008, Nelson A4 / 170pp A biography of George Cook, member of the 1932 Olympic rowing eights. Cook volunteered early in World War Two, and went to Egypt where, on the Nile, in 1940 - he successfully stroked the New Zealand Eight. It was a sad loss when he was killed in action early in 1941, in Cr ...Show more
Alli Way of Life, The: Living Well with Cerebral Palsy by Allison Franklin
55.99 NZD
62.00 (9% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
DoP 2008, Auckland 244pp / 160x220mm Softcover When Allison Franklin was born in 1959, her breech birth led to oxygen deprivation to her brain resulting in her having Cerebral Palsy. Written with insight and humour, this is her story, intended to entertain and enlighten people without experience o ...Show more
Step up to the line by V.A.Markwell
37.50 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
On 24 January 1966, Neil Smith was sworn into the New Zealand Police and his career took him to work in many places across New Zealand's North and South Islands ranging from Wellington to the West Coas
The Sea Is My Wife by Gordon Berry
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The memoir of the author growing up in Eastbourne and eventually shifting the Sounds, covering his varied careers in running a guest house, launch charter and electrical contracting.
Scottie
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
DoP - Feb 2008 This remarkable book may appear to be more novel than biography. It is in fact the dramatisation of a real life: that of the late Neville Scott, an athlete good enough at age 20, to finish seventh in the close-packed finish of the 1956 Olympic 1,500m final..before his life began to spira ...Show more
The Pink Party by Jane Bissell
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The Pink Party is JaneâÂÂs second book about the extraordinary journey that is a womanâÂÂs experience with breast cancer. Jane writes of the joys, fears and achievements in her own life and in the lives of Manon and Colleen, all united by the breast cancer journey they share. Colleen faces the end ...Show more
Memories of my life J F H Wohlers by -
56.99 NZD
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Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The Nut that Changed My Life [First Edition, Signed] by Bruce Hayman
29.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
First printed 2007, Lake Tekapo, NZ 2008 reprint 272pp Bruce Hayman has lived almost all his life on 'Tasman Downs' station in the Mackenzie Country. 'The Nut that Changed my Life' is his life story, covering not only the day to day farming life on a high country station, but also his war service as a p ...Show more
Losing My Voice! Living with motor neurone disease by Barbara Frances Williams
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
DOP 2008, Auckland softcover One year after moving from Auckland to Sydney to start a new career Barbara is diagnosed with motor neurone desease, an incurable, degenerative, terminal condition. Once diagnosed with motor neurone disease, there is currently no hope of a cure. The best one can hope for ...Show more