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Flying High - The Photography of Lloyd Homer by Simon Nathan
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'Disaster man' Lloyd Homer photographed events such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and landslides arounf New Zealand for over 35 years. This book features a selection of spectacular colour aerial photohraphs, including high-altitude panoramas, from the GNS Science image library as well as many uniqu ...Show more
Harold Wellman : A Man who Moved New Zealand by Simon Nathan
$50.00 NZD
Category: Environment
The most influential New Zealand geologist of the 20th century, Harold Wellman was the first to recognise one of New Zealand's most extraordinary features: the Alpine Fault that bisects the South Island. Harold Wellman: A Man Who Moved New Zealand is the first biography of this fascinating individual. W ...Show more
The Amazing World of James Hector by Simon Nathan (ed)
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
James Hector was astounding. Scottish-born and trained as a surgeon, at 23 he took part in a daring British expedition to survey western Canada, and was given up for dead at a place still known - on account of his accident - as Kicking Horse Pass. Fortunately, he survived. Then head-hunted to carry out ...Show more
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