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About The Size Of It : The Common Sense Approach to Measuring Things by Warwick Cairns
27.99 NZD
29.00 (3% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
Why does the size of a space shuttle's fuel tanks have more to do with a horse's rump than rocket science? Is there a correlation between the humble pint and the capacity of the human bladder? And why is an old Wellington boot as important an instrument of spacial awareness as was ever invented? About t ...Show more
About the Size of it: The Common Sense Approach to Measuring Things by Warwick Cairns
39.99 NZD
Category: Science
A serious, but seriously funny book about measuring things. Readers will find out: - Why an old Wellington boot is as important an instrument of spacial awareness as was ever invented? - Why the size of a space shuttle's fuel tanks has more to do with the proportions of a horse's rump than rocket scienc ...Show more
In Praise of Savagery by Warwick Cairns
26.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
One man's journey in the footsteps of a great explorer into the heart of Africa. As a young man, Warwick Cairns met the then elderly explorer Wilfred Thesiger and the two men struck up an unlikely friendship. Invited to visit him at his African home, Cairns decides to make a bit of an adventure of it ...Show more
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