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Eyewitness Guide New Zealand
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2006 PAPER 400 PAGES
This superb illustrated guide to New Zealand from the Eyewitness series features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry.
(NZL45, $25.00)
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)
New Zealand, A Natural History
Tui De Roy Mark Jones
NATURAL HISTORY 2006 HARD COVER 160 PAGES
Naturalists and photographers both, de Roy and Jones present the wildlife, habitats and splendor of their adopted homeland in this pictorial celebration.
(NZL76, $35.00)
New Zealand Map
World Mapping Project
2006 MAP
A map of New Zealand, at a scale of 1:1,000,000, featuring topographical detail.
(NZL09, $9.99)
Christchurch Map
HEMA Maps
Including a regional map on the reverse at a scale of 1:350,000.
(NZL84, $10.95)
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
OUT OF PRINT
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)
Tramping in New Zealand
Lonely Planet
GUIDEBOOK
A thorough guide to hiking in New Zealand, featuring descriptions of 50 multi-day treks, dozens of two-color topographic maps, and good information on getting the most out of your adventures.
(NZL10, $21.99)
Maori Tattooing
H.G. Robley
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A new unabridged edition of the classic, illustrated sourcebook on Maori tattooing (moko), first published in 1896. The author pays scrupulous attention to the intricate patterns, design and cultural meaning of traditional Maori tattoos.
(NZL67, $12.95)
Adventure Without End
Richard Bangs
EXPLORATION
A collection of 16 globe-spanning reports from the field (including Patagonia, Idaho and Borneo) by the peripatetic river rat and writer.
(TVL30, $16.95)
Janet Frame, An Autobiography: To the Island, An Angel at My Table, The Envoy from Mirror City
Janet Frame
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
OUT OF PRINT
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)
The Lost River
Richard Bangs
EXPLORATION
Richard Bangs recounts his encounters and experiences on wild rivers, including his first-run of Ethiopia's Tekeze
(ETP31, $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)
Tutira, The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station
Herbert Guthrie-Smith
William Cronon
NATURAL HISTORY
HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
OUT OF PRINT
First published in 1921, this loving account of the ecology of New Zealand focuses on Guthrie-Smith's 40,000-sheep shearing station on the shores of Lake Tutira.
(NZL26, $24.95)
Wild Fiordland
Neville Peat
NATURAL HISTORY
This comprehensive overview of the natural history of New Zealand's Fiordland features maps, lively essays and 200 color photographs.
(NZL06, $39.95)
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)
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