Tramping in Aotearoa : New Zealand's top 45 tracks by Shaun Barnett
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
‘Tramping in Aotearoa’ is New Zealand’s best-selling tramping guide, written by this country’s preeminent tramping author, Shaun Barnett. This fully revised edition features 45 of our most popular tramps with essential route information, the latest generation of overview maps, commentary and outstandin ...Show more
Troublesome Words (PB) by Bill Bryson
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
What's the difference between mean and median, blatant and flagrant, flout and flaunt? Is it whodunnit or whodunit? Do you know? Are you sure? With Troublesome Words, Bill Bryson offers a clear, concise and entertaining guide to the problems of English usage that has been an indispensable companion to t ...Show more
Who Lived There? The Stories Behind Historic New Zealand Buildings by Nicola McCloy; Jane King
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
You can't help but wonder about the stories behind the unusual buildings you see around New Zealand - from cute colonial cottages to abandoned industrial buildings or ghost towns. Nicola McCloy went looking to find out ... who lived there? From basic stone cottages in barren-looking countryside to prett ...Show more
100 x 100: The Best of Everything by Australian Geographic
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The ultimate list book, 100 x 100 takes ten subject areas - the visual, literary and performing arts, science, nature, history, sport, design, technology and philosophy - and subdivides each one into ten sections of 100 profiles each, giving you a phenomenal 10,000 profiles of the best of everything. Lo ...Show more
21 Lessons for the 21st Century: 'Truly mind-expanding... Ultra-topical' Guardian by Yuval Noah Harari
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What ...Show more
5 Language Visual Dictionary by DK
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
This learner dictionary is your go-to guide for five major European languages, with a free audio app included.Perfect for tourists and business travellers alike, DK's 5 Language Visual Dictionaryis your essential companion when buying food and clothes, talking about work and interests, discussing health ...Show more
A Bloody Difficult Subject - Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Making of History by Bain Attwood
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
One historian's research and the transformation of te Tiriti in New Zealand life.
A Bunk for the Night - A Guide to New Zealand's Best Backcountry Huts (Revised edition) by Shaun Barnett, Rob Brown; Geoff Spearpoint
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand has a huge range of backcountry huts, most of which are available for public use. Some can sleep 80 people, while others are tiny two-bunk affairs with not even room to stand up in. They are located in our mountains, on the edges of our fiords, coastlines and lakes, beside rivers, in the bus ...Show more
A Constant Hum by Alice Bishop
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: Adult
Before the bushfires--before the front of flames comes roaring over the hills--the ridges are thick with gums. After the fires, the birds have gone. There is only grey ash and melted metal, the blackened husks of cars. And the lost people: in temporary accommodation on the outskirts of the city, on the ...Show more
A Crack in the Edge of the World : The Great American Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this city came crashing down beneath the rippling wave of a horrifying earthquake that turned roads into gre ...Show more
A Field Guide to the Native Edible Plants of New Zealand by Andrew Crowe
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A go-to, illustrated field guide of edible native New Zealand plants, including a section on poisonous plants. In this useful and attractive book, over 190 trees, shrubs, herbs, ferns, mushrooms, lichens and seaweeds are described in detail with information on which part is edible and when, how plants h ...Show more
A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of New Zealand (2nd ed.) by Oscar Thomas
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Naturalists' Guides
A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of New Zealand is an introductory photographic identification guide to 250 bird species, including the most commonly seen, unique and endemic species, and is perfect for resident and visitor alike. High-quality photographs from one of New Zealand's youngest nature photo ...Show more