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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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
Volcanoes, Fire From the Earth  •  Maurice Krafft   • NATURAL HISTORY • OUT OF PRINT  •  This illustrated pocket encyclopedia in the Discoveries series, featuring hundreds of full color paintings, traces the study of volcanoes from early myth and legend to modern science. By the great French volcanologist (who died on the job on Mount Unzen in Japan in 1992). (GEO06, $12.95)
 
 
Seabirds of the World, A Photographic Guide  •  Peter Harrison   • FIELD GUIDE • OUT OF PRINT  •  A definitive, compact guide to all the world's seabirds, featuring 740 photographs. (FG16, $29.95)
 
 




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