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Agatharchides of Cnidus - On the Erythraean Sea by Agatharchides of Cnidus; Stanley M. Burstein (Editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 172 | Reading Level: very good
Written some time before 100 BC the On the Erythraean Sea of Agatharchides of Cnidus is the most important source for an almost forgotten chapter of the history of geographical discovery, the exploration of the Red Sea and the region surrounding it by agents of the Ptolemaic government of Egypt in the c ...Show more
Barbot on Guinea - The writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa 1678-1712 Volumes I & II by Jean Barbot; Adam Jones (ed.); P. E. H. Hair (Editor); Robin Law (ed.)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volumes 175-6 | Reading Level: very good
Jean Barbot, who served as a commercial agent on French slave-trading voyages to West Africa in 1678-9 and 1681-2, in 1683 began an account of the Guinea coast, based partly on his voyage journals (only one of which is extant) and partly on previous printed sources. The work was interrupted by his fligh ...Show more
High Wire (Korero Series) by Lloyd Jones; Euan Macleod
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art & Artists | Series: Korero Series 1 | Reading Level: very good
High Wire brings together Booker finalist writer Lloyd Jones and artist Euan Macleod. It is the first of a series of picture books written and made for grownups and designed to showcase leading New Zealand writers and artists working together in a collaborative and dynamic way. In High Wire the narrator ...Show more
How to Watch a Bird by Steve Braunias
$24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History | Series: Ginger Series 10 | Reading Level: very good
As prize-winning journalist Steve Braunias stands on an apartment balcony on a sultry summer evening, a black-backed gull flies so close he is instantaneously bowled over with happiness.'I thought: Birds, everywhere. I wanted to know more about them.' This book is the result - a wondrous personal journe ...Show more
Noddy Book Series (1-10 ) by Enid Blyton
$275.00 NZD
Category: Children's | Series: Noddy Book Series 1-10
A very well-preserved set of 1 to 10 Noddy Books from the Noddy Book series. Published from 1949 onwards.
Prutky's Travels to Ethiopia and Other Countries by Henry Arrowsmith-Brown (Editor); Richard Pankhurst
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 174 | Reading Level: very good
Remedius Prutky, Franciscan missionary, was in 1751 appointed vice-prefect of a mission sent to Ethiopia in response to an invitation by the then emperor Iyasu II; with two colleagues he left Cairo in August and reached Massawa in November. After some delay he was summoned to Gondar, which he reached in ...Show more
The English New England Voyages, 1602-1608 by David B. Quinn (editor); Alison M Quinn (editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 161 | Reading Level: very good
The publication of the narrative accounts of the voyages of Gisnold (1602) and Waymouth (1605) opened up for English readers what was then known as Norumbega, the later New England; They are the first documents of exploration of that region to have been published since that of Verrazzano's voyage (1524) ...Show more
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
$16.50 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Gravure Series No 11
The Itinerário of Jerónimo Lobo by Jeronimo Lobo; M. G. Da Costa (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 162 | Reading Level: very good
Jerónimo Lobo was the last survivor of the small band of Jesuit Fathers who tried, with a measure of success, to reconcile Ethiopia to the Church of Rome. The narrative begins with Lobo's ordination in 1621 and ends seventeen years later. Chosen to serve in India he reached that country after being invo ...Show more
The Journal of Jean-Francois de Galaup de la Perouse, 1785-1788 - Volume I and Volume II by Jean Francois De Galaup De Laperouse; Jean-Francois de Galoupe de La Perouse; John Dunmore (Editor)
$75.00 NZD
Category: Captain Cook & Pacific Exploration | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volumes 179-180 | Reading Level: very good
During the second half of the 18th century, Britain and France despatched a number of major expeditions to the Pacific. The greatest contribution by far was that of James Cook, but the voyages of Bougainville, Surville and Marion du Fresne had each played an important part in Pacific exploration. After ...Show more