A Century of Achievement - A Commemoration of the First Hundred Years of the New Zealand Meat Industry by R. A. Barton (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Countless Signs - The New Zealand Landscape in Literature: An Anthology by Trudie McNaughton (Compiled by)
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Literature
Country of Writing by Lydia Wevers
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
The first substantial study of travel writing about New Zealand in the colonial period, Country of Writing puts it into the wider context of the European settlement of new societies. It discusses a great range of writing often from little-known names and unexpected sources who all played a part in putti ...Show more
Dear Colin, Dear Ron - The Selected Letters of Colin McCahon and Ron Reilly by Peter Simpson
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
This substantial book of letters selected by esteemed Colin McCahon scholar Peter Simpson shines a light on one of the most remarkable relationships in New Zealand art. The painter Colin McCahon and the librarian Ron O'Reilly first met in 1938, in Dunedin, when McCahon was 19 and O'Reilly 24. They rem ...Show more
F. G. Gibbs; His Influence On The Social History Of Nelson 1890 - 1950 by Shonadh Mann
$37.50 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
A Thesis submitted for the Degree of Master of Arts in History. #196 in a Limited Edition of 500 copies. softcover. sunned spine, some discoloration to cover. limited edition #196 of 500 Also #394/500
First Catch Your Weka - A Story of New Zealand Cooking by David Veart
$47.50 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Secondhand. 'First catch your Weka', the explorer Charles Heaphy advised in 1842, then stuff it with sage and onion and roast it on a stick. In that simple way began a great tradition of New Zealand cooking, from Heaphy to the Edmonds Cookery Book, Alison Holst, Hudson and Halls, and the meal on your p ...Show more
Four Kiwis and a Falcon by David Harford
$18.50 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Secondhand. The idea of driving a car around the world had often entered David Harford's mind, but it was not until he met an attractive Australian girl that the dream started becoming a reality. Had they known then the complications and mishaps that lay ahead, a sea passage to England might have seeme ...Show more
Good as Gold: New Zealand in the 1980s by Matt Elliott
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
In the 1980s, life in New Zealand became brighter, louder, faster and wilder. While the decade is remembered for its big hair, bright clothing and excessive shows of wealth, it was also a time of social upheaval, protest and political reform. These years saw Kiwis make their mark on the global sport and ...Show more