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New Zealand: South Island   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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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)
  Eyewitness Guide New Zealand
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)
  A Traveller's History of New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands
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, A Natural History
New Zealand Map  •   Borch Maps
2006 •  MAP
This full color laminated map shows North Island and South Island at a scale of 1:1,300,000. With index, time zones, maps of Aukland, Wellington, Rotorua, Christchurch, Nelson, Queenstown and Dunedin. Two Sides. 39x20 inches. (NZL09, $10.95)
  New Zealand Map
 

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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)
 
 
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)
 
 
Wallpaper City Guide Auckland  •   Wallpaper Magazine   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Auckland is the latest city to join the serries of stylish guides to shops, restaurants and lodging. (NZL86, $8.95)
 
 
Mau Moko, The World of Maori Tattoo  •  Ngahuia Te Awekotuku   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • COMING IN JUNE  •  This superbly illustrated survey of the moko from pre-European times to the present day features paintings, photographs and drawings and new color photography by Becky Nunes. (NZL95, $51.00)
 
 
Presenting New Zealand, An Illustrated History  •  Philip Temple   • HISTORY  •  Organized from North to South , not Stone Age to now, this oversized paperback, featuring large, full-color archival illustrations on every page, is a profile of the island nation, its history, people and nature. (NZL106, $39.99)
 
 
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)
 
 
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All, A New Zealand Story  •  Christina Thompson   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • NEW  •  In this endearing, offbeat memoir, Thompson effortlessly moves between tales of mostly disastrous early encounters with the Maori (she's an anthropologist) and the story of the love of her life, Seven, the Maori she married. (NZL96, $15.00)
 
 
Island of the Lost  •  Joan Druett   • EXPLORATION  •  The author of a series of swashbucklers, Druett brings a scholar's eye and dramatist's flair to this gripping real-life tale of the contrasting fate of the Invercauld and the Grafton, both vessels shipwrecked on Auckland Island in 1864. (NZL87, $24.95)
 
 
Kiwi Tracks  •  Andrew Stevenson   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  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)
 
 
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, $14.00)
 
 
Stories  •  Katherine Mansfield   • LITERATURE  •  The three marvelous, long stories in this collection constitute the beginnings of a novel based on Mansfield's childhood in Wellington. (NZL55, $14.95)
 
 
The Bone People  •  Keri Hulme   • LITERATURE  •  Set in modern day South Island, this Booker Prize-winning novel brings together three troubled individuals who represent New Zealand's Maori and European traditions. (NZL02, $15.00)
 
 
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)
 
 
New Zealand Wildlife  •  Julian Fitter   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Julian Fitter's splendid introduction to the nature and wildlife of New Zealand features succinct chapters on geography and geology, history, habitats and wildlife, along with hundreds of color photographs. Fitter (Wildlife of the Galapagos) and Tui de Roy, who contributed many of the photographs, also collaborated on Albatross, Their World, Their Ways. (NZL97, $25.99)
 
 
The Hand Guide to the Birds of New Zealand  •  Barrie Heather   • FIELD GUIDE  •  The revised compact edition of the classic field guide, featuring 74 color plates by Derek Onley. (NZL05, $70.00)
 
 


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