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Living Lightly: The Busy Person's Guide to Mindful Consumption by Nicola Turner
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
How do you reduce your impact when you don't want to compromise your lifestyle? How do you live lighter when you're juggling the motherlode of life? How can you become more mindful of how and what you're consuming? In a previous career, Nicola Turner's job was to convince us to buy more - and now she u ...Show more
Landmarks by Owen Marshall; Grahame Sydney; Brian Turner
$75.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A handsome, landmark book celebrating the work of three of our literary and artistic heavyweights. The complementary work of artist Grahame Sydney, fiction writer Owen Marshall and poet Brian Turner was first brought together in the hugely successful Timeless Land in 1995. Its pages showed their shared, ...Show more
New Zealanders: The Field Guide by Tom Sainsbury
$37.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A revealing guide to the weird and wonderful inhabitants of New Zealand... and the places you'll find them. After years of mimicking various celebrities and stereotypes on his social media platforms, comedian Tom Sainsbury has now compiled his favourite New Zealand personalities into a book. This array ...Show more
Off the Beaten Track: Hunting Tales from the New Zealand Back Country by Dave Shaw
$40.00 NZD
Category: Ockham Finalist 2021
Off the back of the successful TV series Red Stag Timber Hunters' Club (currently in its sixth season, with more to come), Andre, Anto, Dan, Tim, Sam and Dave are the official members of 'The Hunters Club', a team of intrepid and passionate hunters who aren't afraid to put in the hard yards, reaching ar ...Show more
Beaudy - Skills, Drills and the Path to the Top by Rikki Swannell
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
From his upbringing with seven siblings in rural New Zealand, experiences in Ireland as a child, to his rise through the rugby ranks with Taranaki and the Hurricanes, Beauden Barrett will give an insight into what has made him the player he's become, the setbacks he had along the way and the choices he ...Show more
Maori Philosophy by Georgina Tuari Stewart
$39.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
Covering the symbolic systems and worldviews of the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa, New Zealand, this book is a concise introduction to Maori philosophy. It addresses core philosophical issues including Maori notions of the self, the world, epistemology, the form in which Maori philosophy is conveyed, a ...Show more
Te Rongoa Maori: Maori Medicine by P. M. E. Williams
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Pip Williams, a retired pharmacist living in Northland, has spent his life observing and recording the use by local Maori of native plants for medicinal purposes. Te Rongoa Maoribrings together his observations on 43 New Zealand plants and the health problems they were used to treat, colourfully intersp ...Show more
Down South: In Search of the Great Southern Land by Bruce Ansley
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
In Down South, writer Bruce Ansley goes on a journey back to his beloved South Island. From Curio Bay to Golden Bay, in Down South writer Bruce Ansley sets off on a vast expedition across the South Island, Te Waipounamu, visiting the places and people who hold clues to the south's famous character. Not ...Show more
A Walking Guide to New Zealand's Long Trail: Te Araroa by Geoff Chapple
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the guidebook of Te Araroa Trail: The Long Pathway, a continuous trail running from Cape Reinga to Bluff, 35 years in the making, which officially opened in late 2011. The book maps the 3000-kilometer trail in 40-kilometer sections, with maps by leading map maker Roger Smith of Geographx. Autho ...Show more
Moko: Maori Tattooing in the 20th Century by Michael King
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
Moko is written by Michael King, one of New Zealand's most celebrated historians, and photographed by Marti Friedlander, one of the country's most eminent photographers. One of New Zealand's iconic books, originally published in 1972, it was a milestone in New Zealand publishing. Maori subject matter w ...Show more
Navigating the Stars: Maori Creation Myths by Witi Ihimaera
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
From master storyteller Witi Ihimaera, a spellbinding and provocative retelling of traditional Maori myths for the twenty-first century. In this milestone volume, Ihimaera traces the history of the Maori people through their creation myths. He follows Tawhaki up the vines into the firmament, Hine-titama ...Show more
Maori Place Names: Their Meanings and Origins by A. W. Reed (Revised by Peter Dowling)
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Pronounce and understand Maori place names with the new fourth edition of A.W. Reed's classic guide to meanings and origins of names across New Zealand. From Ahaura to Whitianga, this handily sized book is the definitive guide to over 2300 of the most common and notable Maori names on our land. Why do W ...Show more
