Sir Bob Charles - The Biography by Geoff Saunders
59.90 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Sir Bob Charles - The Biography is the first comprehensive biography of Sir Bob Charles. This book begins in working-class rural New Zealand. In 1960 he embarked upon a career that no New Zealander had chosen before - that of a full-time touring professional. As told in Sir Bob Charles -The Biograph ...Show more
A Path Through the Trees: Mary Sutherland - forester, botanist & women's advocate by Vivien Edwards
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Mary Sutherland was the world's first woman forestry graduate. She emigrated to New Zealand in 1923 and was employed by the State Forest Service. A Path Through the Trees tells the professional and personal story of this remarkable woman.
Retirement in a Tent: From Dream to Reality by Faye Hawtin
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Everyone has a personal and individual Dream which involves their own interests, what they are looking for, and what they might find. Faye dreamed of freedom. Freedom to follow her own agenda. Freedom to fulfil her wanderlust within the limits of a fixed income. Freedom from other people's expectations. ...Show more
The Dolphin: The Life of David Lewis by Ben Lowings
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
David Lewis might be the greatest explorer you've never heard of. This British-born New Zealander was the first person to sail a catamaran around the world, the first - in Ice Bird - to reach Antarctica solo under sail, and the first to make known to Westerners how ancient navigators reached - and coul ...Show more
Grief on the Run by Julie Zarifeh
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Julie Zarifeh shares the tragic story of losing her 27-year-old son, Sam, in a whitewater rafting accident just sixteen days after her 60-year-old husband, Paul, died of pancreatic cancer. She describes how she and her surviving son and daughter dealt with this double whammy and how she embraced the not ...Show more
Farm for Life - Mahi, mana and life on the land by Tangaroa Walker
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
How farming helped Tangaroa Walker to stand up, stand out and realize his own dreams.The awesomely inspiring true story of how Tangaroa Walker turned his life around through farming - and how what he learned can help anyone succeed. Tangaroa Walker's early years were pretty rough. Adopted twice, he went ...Show more
Zen Heart - What I've Learned from Animals and Life by Mark Vette
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
A cheeky baboon, a cockatoo sending a heading dog out to round up sheep, a family of pukekos crossing the road, a dog saying 'bugger', an octopus taking a photo. Think of an ad you love, or a New Zealand-made movie, and if it has an animal in it chances are Mark Vette was behind it. He's trained almost ...Show more
An Exquisite Legacy - The Work and Art of New Zealand Naturalist G.V. Hudson by George Gibbs
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The biography of one of New Zealand's greatest naturalist-artists, G. V.Hudson. George Hudson, 1867-1946, was one of New Zealand's pioneer naturalists, who devoted his life to collecting and describing the New Zealand insect fauna. He amassed what is probably the largest collection of New Zealand insect ...Show more
Ralph Hotere - The Dark is Light Enough - A Biographical Portrait by Vincent O'Sullivan
45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Vincent O'Sullivan's compelling, nuanced portrait of the great New Zealand artist Ralph Hotere brings the man and his art to life. Ralph Hotere (Te Aupouri and Te Rarawa; 1931-2013) was one of Aotearoa's most significant modern artists. Hotere invited the poet, novelist and biographer Vincent O'Sullivan ...Show more
Letters from Tove by Tove Jansson; Boel Westin (Editor); Helen Svensson (Editor); Sarah Death (Translator)
32.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
A virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins Tove Jansson's works, even her famed Moomin books, fairly teem with letters of one kind or another, from messages bobbing in bottles to whole epistolary novels. Fortunately for her countless readers, her life was no different, unfolding a ...Show more
Letters of Denis Glover by Sarah Shieff
79.95 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Oh Christ, a bloody half-witted student, for purposes of an essay, has just come in to ask me what I and Baxter write verse for, and if we mean what we say, or is there something deeper; could we write better verse in England, or here; or do the critics and professors just read a lot into what’s said th ...Show more
Billy Apple: Life/Work by Christina Barton
75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
A major study of New Zealand’s most internationally significant living artist. Billy Apple (born Barrie Bates in Auckland, 1935) is New Zealand’s most internationally significant living artist and a pioneer of pop and conceptual art. At the Royal College of Art in London from 1959–62, Apple studied with ...Show more