Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/LO1034. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.

Insight Guide New Zealand  •  Insight Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 350 PAGES A profusely illustrated overview of New Zealand, featuring concise essays by well-regarded authors on natural history, politics, and culture. It also includes hundreds of photos and maps, along with some limited practical information. Local writer Gordon McLaughlin led the team of experts who contributed to the book. In addition to a survey of attractions throughout both North and South Island, the book features essays on the Maori, natural history and outdoor adventures. (NZL17, $22.95)
Wild Dunedin, Enjoying the Natural History of New Zealand's Wildlife Capital  •  Neville Peat  •  Brian Patrick NATURAL HISTORY •  2002 •  HARD COVER  • 144 PAGES A comprehensive, illustrated overview of the natural history of Dunedin, a coastal city on New Zealand's South Island. With good maps, lively essays and plenty of color photographs. (NZL29, $39.95)
A Traveller's History of New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands  •  John Chambers HISTORY •  2007 •  PAPER  • 400 PAGES A concise, generous overview of the region, organized chronologically, and including line drawings and maps. While a great deal of the book focuses on New Zealand, there is also ample coverage of the South Pacific. (NZL60, $14.95)
The History of New Zealand  •  Tom Brooking HISTORY •  2004 •  HARD COVER  • 250 PAGES A compact, authoritative history of New Zeland geared for university students. The author is a professor of history at the University of Otago. (NZL73, $49.95)

A Personal Kiwi-Yankee Dictionary  •  Louis Leland   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  Take this book with you on your trip to help you untangle the sometimes perplexing and colorful local idioms. (NZL13, $7.95)
Beginner's Maori  •  K. T. Harawira  •  T. R. Buxton   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • COMING IN  •  A guide to the Maori language, written for the traveler looking for an introductory foundation to the language, culture and traditions of the Maori people. (NZL36, $8.95)
Eyewitness Guide New Zealand  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This handsome guidebook is an excellent choice for the curious traveler, featuring color photography, good local maps and a region-by-region overview of the North and South Islands and their attractions. (NZL45, $25.00)
Moon Handbook New Zealand  •  Jane King   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An up-to-date, practical guide to destinations in New Zealand, packed with dozens of maps and focusing on the outdoors. (NZL01, $19.95)
Between Worlds, Early Exchanges Between Maori and Europeans, 1773-1815  •  Anne Salmond   • HISTORY  •  The second volume in Salmond's academic study of early encounters between Europeans and New Zealand's Maoris. (NZL37, $40.00)
Cultural Atlas of Australia, New Zealand & the South Pacific  •  Richard Nile  •  Christian Clerk   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  This handsome volume weaves together history, geography, archaeology, and the arts, covering the Australasian region from prehistory up to the founding of the modern nations. Features hundreds of illustrations. (AUS09, $50.00)
Making Peoples, A History of the New Zealanders from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century  •  James Belich   • HISTORY  •  A social history of the Maori from pre-contact to the late 19th century. With its wide, yet detailed focus, this book gives the reader a glimpse into the social forces that have formed the Maori, including the tremendous impact of colonization. (NZL07, $20.00)
Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders From the 1880s to the Year 2000  •  James Belich   • HISTORY  •  The continuation of Belich's Making People (NZL07), a lively, provocative history of New Zealand and its people, Maori and European. Organized chronologically, he addresses both economic and social history, looking at ties with Britain, reliance on sheep, the environment and other topics. (NZL59, $40.00)
The Oxford History of New Zealand  •  Geoffrey W. Rice   • HISTORY  •  An all-encompassing history of New Zealand up through the 1980s. (NZL39, $45.00)
The Oxford Illustrated History of New Zealand  •  Keith Sinclair   • HISTORY  •  An illustrated history of New Zealand up through the 1990s. (NZL40, $49.50)
Captain James Cook  •  Richard Hough   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A vividly written narrative of the life and three great voyages of Captain Cook. This fine book includes a gripping account of his discoveries throughout the Pacific. (PAC24, $50.00)
Janet Frame, An Autobiography: To the Island, An Angel at My Table, The Envoy from Mirror City  •  Janet Frame   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • COMING IN  •  The three-volume memoir of one of New Zealand's most original writers. From her impoverished upbringing to her misdiagnosis with mental illness to her transformation into a distinguished novelist/poet, Frame's is a story of courage and creativity. (NZL25, $19.95)
Kiwi Tracks, A New Zealand Journey  •  Andrew Stevenson   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  An account of a four-month solo trek through New Zealand, drawing on the author's background in biology and anthropology. Stevenson begins amidst the snow and cold on the mountains of New Zealand's South Island and slowly ventures northward to the tropics. (NZL30, $12.95)
Slipping Into Paradise, Why I Live in New Zealand  •  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  In this far-ranging travelogue, Masson (who wrote a series of books on the emotional lives of animals) combines his travels and tales with history, riffs on the kiwis, nature and society. (NZL69, $14.95)
Straying from the Flock, Travels in New Zealand  •  Alexander Elder   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A personable account of travels in New Zealand, Australia and the Cook islands, organized into 50 chapters, each describing a single day. (NZL71, $14.95)
The Happy Isles of Oceania, Paddling the Pacific  •  Paul Theroux   • EXPLORATION • FAVORITE  •  Here's Theroux at his wickedly funny and open-minded best. The peripatetic author flies off to Australia and New Zealand with a kayak and ends up exploring much of Melanesia and Polynesia, including Tonga, Fiji and the Marquesas. (PAC03, $15.95)
Great Southern Landings, An Anthology of Antipodean Travel  •  Jan Bassett   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Ranging from travel accounts to flights of fantastic adventure, these tales provide a cultural portrait of Australia and New Zealand over the last four centuries. (AUS63, $45.00)
Erewhon  •  Samuel Butler  •  Peter Mudford   • LITERATURE  •  Butler's classic Victorian novel inspired by his experiences in 1860s New Zealand. A satirical account of a journey to an upside-down country at the end of the world, where sick people are thrown in jail and murderers are taken to the hospital. (NZL65, $14.00)
Once Were Warriors  •  Alan Duff   • LITERATURE  •  This controversial best-selling novel follows the fate of a Maori woman in what appears to be modern-day Auckland, an insightful look at social problems of the Maori in contemporary New Zealand. (NZL19, $12.95)
Stories  •  Katherine Mansfield   • LITERATURE  •  This collection includes three marvelous, long pieces which together constitute the beginnings of an unfinished novel based on Mansfield's childhood in Wellington, New Zealand in the 1890s. (NZL55, $14.95)
The Bone People  •  Keri Hulme   • LITERATURE  •  Set in modern day South Island, this lyrical novel brings together three troubled individuals who represent New Zealand's varied Maori and European traditions. Winner of the Booker Prize. (NZL02, $15.00)
The Garden Party and Other Stories  •  Katherine Mansfield   • LITERATURE  •  This collection of short stories, the last in a distinguished career, features many tales set in Wellington, where Mansfield lived before moving to England in 1909. (NZL23, $14.00)
The Reservoir, Stories and Sketches  •  Janet Frame   • LITERATURE  •  A collection of various writing from New Zealand's Janet Frame. (NZL41, $10.95)
Whale Rider  •  Witi Ihimaera   • LITERATURE  •  A magical, mythical novella about a young Maori girl and her attempts to honor the traditions of her ancestors. Based loosely on Ihimaera's youth in a Maori village. (NZL64, $8.00)
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900  •  Alfred W. Crosby   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  The story of how early explorers, colonists and settlers reshaped our biological world. (NAT22, $24.99)
The Hand Guide to the Birds of New Zealand  •  Derek Onley  •  Barrie Heather  •  Hugh Robertson   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A field guide featuring 74 color plates. Brief descriptions, range maps and illustrations are integrated on facing pages for easy reference. (NZL05, $59.95)