Cook's Cook: The Cook Who Cooked for Captain Cook by Gavin Bishop
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Cook's Cook follows the 1768 journey of James Cook's H.M.S. Endeavour with his ship's cook, the one-handed John Thompson, as story teller. Through real recipes from the ship's galley, events on board and the places the ship travelled to on its way to the Pacific, the book tells multiple stories. Here ar ...Show more
Ernest Rutherford: Just an Ordinary Boy by Maria Gill
$24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Ernest Rutherford grew up in a tiny town in New Zealand. He had a curious mind and yearned to further his education.But his family could not afford to send him to high school or university. Three times he tried for scholarships and each time he failed.However, with perseverance and patience he finally s ...Show more
Foraging New Zealand: Over 250 plants and fungi to forage in New Zealand by Peter Langlands
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
New Zealand is full of incredible, edible wild foods - fruit, fungi and seaweed; berries, herbs and more - you only need to know where to look and how to do it safely. Foraging New Zealand is the ultimate guide to unearthing more than 250 of our tastiest wild plants. Packed with stunning photography, u ...Show more
Go Girl: A Storybook of Epic NZ Women by Barbara Else
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
GO GIRL is a collection of true stories about New Zealand women who have done extraordinary things. They strove for their goals. They weren't afraid to step up or speak out. They blazed a trail for others to follow. This book was written to show that YOU can join them! Just some of the amazing women wh ...Show more
Hine Toa: A Story of Bravery by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
An incredible memoir by a trailblazing voice in women's, queer and Maori liberation movements In the 1950s, a young Ngahuia is fostered by a family who believe in hard work and community. Although close to her kuia, she craves more: she wants higher education and refined living. But whanau dismiss her d ...Show more
Introducing the Women's Suffrage Petition 1893 (BWB Texts) by Barbara Brookes and Jared Davidson
$17.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
In 1893 New Zealand became the first country in the world with universal suffrage: all New Zealand women now had the right to vote. This achievement owed much to an extraordinary document: the 1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition. Over 270 metres long, with the signatures of some 24,000 women (and at least tw ...Show more
Matariki The Maori New Year by Libby Hakaraia
$21.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
This book is an introduction to the star group Matariki. Known in other cultures by names including the Pleiades and the Seven Sisters, Matariki featured strongly in pre-European New Zealand. It marked the beginning of the Māori calendar, and its rising before the sun in late May or early June was gree ...Show more
Rustle!: Donovan Bixley's Plants of Aotearoa by Donovan Bixley
$24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Series: Donvoan Bixley's Aotearoa
Spiky plants, spicy plants, iconic plants, indestructible plants, useful plants, and New Zealand's giants of the forest!Find out what makes the flora and fauna of Aotearoa so unique in this charming series by award-winning author and illustrator Donovan Bixley.
Shifting Grounds - Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland by Lucy Mackintosh
$59.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
In a city that has forgotten and erased much of its history, there are still places where traces of the past can be found. Deep histories, both natural and human, have been woven together over hundreds of years in places across Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland, forming potent sites of national significance. T ...Show more
Squawk!: Donovan Bixley's Forest Birds of Aotearoa by Donovan Bixley
$24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Series: Donvoan Bixley's Aotearoa
Bright birds, cheeky birds, masked birds, clever birds, warrior birds, shy birds, big birds, tiny birds and the world's most gigantic birds!Join award-winning author and illustrator Donovan Bixley to discover and learn about the fascinating and fabulous forest birds of Aotearoa - including moa, tui, kak ...Show more
The Bantam and the Soldier by Jennifer Beck
$21.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: Bantam and the Soldier
Winner of the 1997 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards. It is wartime in Europe. A young soldier from 'a country on the other side of the world' rescues and brings back to health a little bantam, and in the midst of the fighting and devastation an unusual friendship is formed. Every morning the bant ...Show more
The New Zealand Wars by Philippa Werry
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
New edition of The New Zealand Wars The New Zealand Wars are a part of New Zealand's history that many people wish they knew more about. This book describes how the wars came about, where and when they were fought and who was involved. It looks at how they are being remembered today, including new way ...Show more