The Forgotten Prophet: Tāmati Te Ito and his Kaingārara Movement by Jeffrey Sissons
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Te Ito’s vision was one of pan-tribal unity; he wanted to bring together all the people of Taranaki ‘from Mokau to Pātea’. Tāmati Te Ito Ngāmoke led the prophetic Kaingārara movement in Taranaki from 1856. Te Ito was revered by tribal leaders as a prophetic tohunga matakite; but others, including many s ...Show more
Hog, Dogs and a Rifle by Kim Swan
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Hunter, adventurer and general outdoor enthusiast Kim Swan has been entertaining Kiwis for decades with her hunting escapades. In this, her tenth, book, Kim Swan shares her favourite pig-hunting stories from recent years, from the hilarious to the hair-raising and even the heartbreaking. Send Kim out i ...Show more
Southern Celts - Stories from people of irish and Scottish descent in Aotearoa by Celine Kearney
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
’Southern Celts’ is a collection of interviews of New Zealanders who reflect on their connections to their Irish and Scottish cultural backgrounds. These narratives of individuals and families cover a range of related issues, including doing business, speaking and teaching Scottish and Irish Gaelic, pla ...Show more
A Forager's Life by Helen Lehndorf
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | 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
Tales Of A Vet Nurse by Jade Pengelly
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The highs and heartbreak of caring for the animals we loveYou never know who or what is going to walk, crawl or slither through the doors of veterinary hospital...Clumsy Luna the Greyhound and her fragile front legs; the tortoise in need of a prosthetic leg; Jock the Saint Bernard and his problematic ey ...Show more
Gaylene's Take - Her Life in New Zealand Film by Gaylene Preston
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
From one of our very best filmmakers comes a memoir of filmmaking in Aotearoa New Zealand. Gaylene Preston has always sought out the stories that have not yet been told, and in this book she reveals the challenges and sometimes heartbreak that have come with that ambition. In both wide lens and close-up ...Show more
The Boy from Gorge River: From New Zealand's remotest family to the world beyond by Chris Long
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
The story of how an extraordinary childhood shaped an extraordinary life. On the West Coast of the South Island, past deep fiords and snow-capped mountains, Chris Long grew up two days' hike from the nearest road. He was born into the country's most isolated family, his parents committed to freedom from ...Show more
Gone Bush: A Life in the Backcountry and Beyond by Paul Kilgour
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
An inspiring story of a wanderer, long-distance tramper and hut-bagging legend. Paul Kilgour was bitten by the tramping bug early. He began going on epic trips as a young boy, beyond the farm and along the coast. During these wanderings, he met old folk living simply in tiny huts out the back of farms a ...Show more
Kakapo Keeper by Gay Buckingham
29.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Mr Richard Henry was employed as Chief Conservator based in Dusky Sound, on New Zealand's lower west coast. Henry and Burt are assigned to catch kakapo and kiwi living on the mainland of New Zealand because they're disappearing and may become completely extinct. One day, Burt ponders, people might read ...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
Searching For Charlie - In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham VC & Bar by Tom Scott
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham is the only combat soldier ever to win the Victoria Cross twice. His acts of bravery in World War II meant he probably deserved six more. The mystery of how a reserved, modest, slightly built farm valuer from New Zealand, could be so ferocious and fearless in battle has int ...Show more
Dad, You've Got Dementia by Kristen Phillips
27.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Dad, You’ve Got Dementia shows people living with dementia and their whānau that it’s possible to stay connected with those they love. When Kristen’s father, Don, was diagnosed with dementia the signs had been there for five years. He’d gone out less and less, given up driving and table tennis and rel ...Show more