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A Sort of Conscience - The Wakefields by Philip Temple
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
This remarkably engaging study of a Wakefield family that played a prominent role in the settlement of New Zealand and other English colonies draws on a rich store of personal letters to paint a portrait of a complex family whose influence crossed the globe. A gripping family story, this volume also pro ...Show more
Canterbury by Arno Gasteiger (intro Philip Temple)
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category
One of New Zealand great photographers, Arno Gasteiger, presents his favourite landscape images of Canterbury. The spectacular region of Canterbury, from braided rivers and distinctive plains, to the dramatic Mackenzie Basin as it sweeps up to the Southern Alps, is captured in this new book. The region ...Show more
Central by Arno Gastieger; Philip Temple
$60.00 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography | Reading Level: very good
Shortlistd for the 2004 Montana NZ Book Awards,Illustrative section.Central Otago, a dramatic landscape of big skies, waving tussock and sweeping mountain vistas, occupies a special place in the minds and hearts of everyone who goes there. Rich in myth and history, Central Otago always seems to be evolv ...Show more
Christchurch - A City and its People by Philip Temple
$25.00 NZD
Category: Christchurch City & Banks Peninsula
Life as a Novel - A Biography of Maurice Shadbolt Volume One 1932 - 1973 by Philip Temple
$44.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Maurice Shadbolt believed that New Zealanders should tell their own stories, cherish their own myths and believe in their own big lies before they could stand upright in a post-colonial world. Through his fiction, non-fiction and international journalism, he played a leading role in projecting New Zeala ...Show more
Mantle of the Skies - The Southern Alps of New Zealand by Philip Temple
$37.50 NZD
Category: Tramping & Mountaineering
New Zealand Explorers - Great Journeys of Discovery by Philip Temple
$45.00 NZD
Category: Captain Cook & Pacific Exploration | Reading Level: very good
CONTENTS-The Missionary-William Colenso and the Ruahine,The Scientist-Dieffenbach & Egmont,The Surveyor-Brunner & Westland,The Farmer-Chalmers & Otago,The Prospector-Barrington & Olivines,The Bushman-Douglas & Waiatoto & The Mountaineer-Spotswood & Mount.Text well supported b ...Show more
Patterns of Water - The Great Southern Lakes of New Zealand by Philip Temple
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ South Island
Philip Temple's South Island of New Zealand by Philip Temple
$18.50 NZD
Category: NZ South Island
Presenting New Zealand: A Nation's Heritage by Philip Temple
$32.50 NZD
Category: NZ History
Secondhand. Lavishly illustrated with over 150 full colour and black and white historical and contemporary photographs, artworks and regional maps, Presenting New Zealand is a quintessential visual and informative account of how the country has developed in relative isolation into the independent natio ...Show more