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
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
The Rise and Fall of James Busby - His Majesty's British Resident in New Zealand by Paul Moon
43.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
One of the British Empire's most troubling colonial exports in the 19th-century, James Busby is known as the father of the Australian wine industry, the author of New Zealand's Declaration of Independence and a central figure in the early history of independent New Zealand as its British Resident from 1 ...Show more
Stop the Clock - A Memoir on Ageing with Dignity, Grace and Humour by Gordon McLauchlan
11.99 NZD
29.99 (60% off)
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The best way to learn anything is by doing it - this is a maxim that goes back to Aristotle. Gordon McLauchlan agrees. He has concluded that the only way of learning how to manage growing old is by growing old. He doesn't believe that wisdom is necessarily a concomitant of old age but suggests that, whi ...Show more
Pull No Punches - Memoir of a Political Survivor by Judith Collins
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
A candid and revealing memoir from one of politics' great survivors - National MP, and leader of the opposition, Judith Collins.
Observations of a Rural Nurse by Sara Mcintyre
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Sara McIntyre, the daughter of the artist Peter McIntyre, was nine years old when her family first came to Kākahi, in the King Country, in 1960. The family has been linked to Kākahi ever since. On the family car trips of her childhood, McIntyre got used to her fathers frequent stops for subject matter f ...Show more