Epic New Zealand Adventurers by Maria Gill
$27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Ten true stories of daring and danger from New Zealand adventurers. Race to the South Pole with Sir Edmund Hillary, defend yourself against polar bears near the Magnetic North Pole with Helen Thayer, find the source of the Nile River with Cam McLeay and Garth MacIntyre, circumnavigate the world with 1 ...Show more
First to the Top: Sir Edmund Hillary's Amazing Everest Adventure by David Hill; Phoebe Morris
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Series: David Hill's Kiwi Legends
Up on the world's highest mountain, the sky is tinged the black color of space and the air is almost too thin to breathe. How did Ed, a small, shy boy from a tiny New Zealand town, grow up to become the world's most famous mountaineer and adventurer? How did he climb Everest and do many other astonishin ...Show more
Joy Cowley: Kiwi Storyteller (Wahine Toa) by David Riley
$41.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Series: Wahine Toa
Joy Cowley is one of New Zealand's most beloved writers. She's written books for all ages and won lots of awards. But she struggled with literacy as a child and couldn't even read back then. A challenging family situation made life even harder. What helped Joy overcome these obstacles and become the ico ...Show more
Mophead: How Your Difference Makes a Difference by Selina Tusitala Marsh
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Series: Mophead
An inspirational graphic memoir of growing up Pasifika in New Zealand, written and illustrated by our fast-talking PI Poet Laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh. At school, Selina is teased for her big, frizzy hair. Kids call her ‘mophead’. She ties her hair up this way and that way and tries to fit in. Until ...Show more
On Call - The Anatomy of My Life As a Surgeon, a Daughter, a Mother by Ineke Meredith
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Frank, sharp-witted and heart-rending, On Call is a stunning memoir by a female Samoan-New Zealand general surgeon about life, death, and the human limits of care As soon as she could, Ineke Meredith left her family home in Samoa for New Zealand, filled with determination not to be like her mother: lov ...Show more
Ross Taylor: Black & White by Paul Thomas
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
When an athlete with an exceptional record of achievement and longevity comes to the end of their career, the numbers can speak for themselves.Ross Taylor has scored the most runs, made the most centuries and taken the most catches by a New Zealander in international cricket. He's the first New Zealand ...Show more
Ruby Tui - Straight Up by Ruby Tui
$36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable childhood yearning for a better option in life to Olympic Champion and the world's best rugby sevens player. Ruby learned to rely on herself and her own strengths as a child, growing up without role models, in ...Show more
A Fish In the Swim of the World by Ben Brown
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Affecting and evocative, this classic memoir by one of Aotearoa's finest Maori writers is now updated with new material. 'This is a book of memories. Some of them are my own. Some of them belong to others. They are as true and as fallible as any memories-distorted by time and distance and a writer's cho ...Show more
Adventures with Emilie: Taking on Te Araroa trail in 138 life-changing days by Victoria Bruce
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
"I'm here because I want to test the very limits of my own resilience and reassure myself that no matter what's happened to me, I'm not ready to lie down and die." In 2021, Victoria Bruce quit her corporate job, packed up her life and embarked on Te Araroa trail with her seven-year-old daughter, Emilie ...Show more
After Alexander: The Legacy of a Son by Jan Pryor
$9.00 NZD
$29.99 (69% off)
Category: NZ Biography
Jan Pryor blends her personal experience of losing a child with her professional understanding of family dynamics and children's development. The clumsiness of consolation; the challenges of organising a funeral and what to do with Alexander's ashes; the isolation, being far from friends and family; con ...Show more
After Everest - Inside the Private World of Edmund Hillary by Paul Little
$36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
'Well if you have a big life, a lot of stuff happens. Dad had a big life.' - Peter Hillary. Edmund Hillary is a towering figure among adventurers. His conquest of Everest and his dedication to the welfare of the Nepalese people is well known. While much has been written about what Sir Edmund Hillary did ...Show more
Ajax the Kea Dog: A working dog's life in the high country by Corey Mosen
$39.99 NZD
Category: Domestic Animals and Pets
The highly illustrated, heartwarming story of conservation heroes, dog Ajax and his handler Corey, who traverse remote parts of the South Island tracking kea nests. Together, Corey and Ajax travel through the steep high country throughout the South Island searching out kea nests. Their part in the kea ...Show more