Huge Stewart 1884-1934: Some Memories of His Friends and Colleagues by Ernest Weekley(ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
The memoir of the late Principal of University College, Nottingham, is the record of a full and gallant life, which began in a Scottish manse and ended, at the age of fifty, in one of the loneliest stretches of the Pacific.
Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford by Leslie Brody
$17.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
This is the definitive biography of the long and adventurous life of the queen of the muckrakers. Admirers and detractors use the same words to describe Jessica Mitford: subversive, muckraker, and, mischief-maker. But those who knew her best simply called her Decca. Born into one of Britain's most famou ...Show more
Island Boy: An Autobiography by Thomas R. A. H. Davis
$47.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. With illustrations by the author. Brought up in the multiple worlds of the Rarotonga waterfront, Sir Tom Davis, Pa Tuterangi Ariki, KFE, has always had access to all cultures and classes. The first Cook Islander to quality in New Zealand, he returned as a "Doctor to the Islands" (the title ...Show more
JFK Volume One 1917-1956 by Fredrik Logevall
$40.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
'A powerful, provocative, and above all compelling book' Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of The Soul of America The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, thirty-fifth p ...Show more
Jackie: Life and Style of Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis by CHIARA PASQUALETTI JOHNSON
$79.99 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
I want to live, not be a witness of my life. Beautiful. Cultured. Refined. Enviable. Admirable. Adored. Journalist. Philanthropist. Publisher. Jackie Kennedy was many things amongst them, she was and remains the most iconic First Lady the United States has ever seen. Discreet and seductive, she lived a ...Show more
Jean Cocteau: A Life by Claude Arnaud
$45.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Unevenly respected, easily hated, almost always suspected of being inferior to his reputation, Jean Cocteau has often been thought of as a jack-of-all-trades, master of none. In this landmark biography, Claude Arnaud thoroughly contests this characterization, as he celebrates Cocteau's "fragile genius-a ...Show more
Jefferson - Architect of American Liberty by John B Boles
$35.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970 Not since Merrill Peterson’s Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, Joh ...Show more
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy by HARRY SHAPIRO AND CAESAR GLEBBEEK
$22.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. September 18, 1995, marks the 25th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's untimely demise. To commemorate this event, the authors have revised and updated over 200 pages of Electric Gypsy, the record of Hendrix's legacy as the music world's most talented guitarist. The candle that burns brightest o ...Show more
Keneti - South Seas Adventures of Kenneth Emory by Bob Krauss
$55.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands