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A Savage History: The Story of Whaling in the Pacific and Southern Oceans by John Newton
64.99 NZD
Category: History
Nothing prepares you for your first sight of the worlds largest mammal. Celebrated, revered, studied and increasingly watched for pleasure rather than hunted, whales hold particular allure. Humans have always been in awe of them, but for much of history we have been compelled to dominate and kill them t ...Show more
Family Songbook by John Newton
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
For as long as there’s been poetry in this country there’s been landscape. Sometimes there seems to have been little else. And yet for all this familiarity there are questions yet to be answered, attachments and passions that don’t let go. John Newton’s new collection asks, how does landscape get its ho ...Show more
Figuring the Pacific: Aotearoa & Pacific Cultural Studies by Howard McNaughton & John Newton (ed)
29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
How to figure the Pacific? This has puzzled and intrigued people for the better part of a millennium. Many would now ask in what terms we may talk of a singular Pacific. The problem is an ancient one, as shown in the lead essay here, Robert Sullivan
Lives of the Poets by John Newton
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
'The Romantic inheritance may be poison, but it seems to be all we have. When I first began writing I didn't look at it this way, which made being a poet, and writing poetry, easier. Ever since that time I have been trying to teach myself how to write again. This has felt mostly like a kind of beachcomb ...Show more
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