Icebound In The Arctic: The Mystery of Captain Francis Crozier and the Franklin Expedition by Michael Smith
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Francis Crozier was a major figure in the epic quests of nineteenth-century Polar exploration - navigating the North West Passage, reaching the North Pole and mapping Antartica. His remarkable story embraces six daring voyages to the world's most hostile regions and extraordinary feats of endurance, tra ...Show more
Events in the Life of Phillip Tapsell: The Old Dane by Jonathan Adams
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Hans Falk, born in 1790 in Copenhagen, took to the sea as a lad, changed his name to Phillip Tapsell, and after many adventures settled at Maketu in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty. There he became the key trader for Bay of Plenty iwi and married into the highest levels of Te Arawa, while helping other trib ...Show more
The Alarmist - Fifty Years Measuring Climate Change by Dave Lowe
$43.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
Alarmist (pre-2020): Someone who exaggerates a danger and so causes needless worry or panic. Alarmist (post-2020): Someone who justifiably raises the alarm about a global danger to Earth's biosphere. His research was urgent fifty years ago. Now, it’s critical. In the early 1970s, budding Kiwi scientist ...Show more
What You Made of It - A Memoir, 1987-2020 by C K Stead
$54.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
The third and final volume of C. K. Stead’s memoirs, from leaving the University of Auckland to write full-time until today. ‘These are my encounters and engagements with the world of books and writers, and of teaching and writing about them,’ C. K. Stead writes in this third and final volume of his mem ...Show more
Reawakened - Traditional Navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa by Jeff Evans
$43.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
This book features interviews with 10 master navigators who trained under Mau Piailug (1932-2010), the legendary teacher of traditional, non-instrument wayfinding methods for open-ocean voyaging across the Pacific. They were given the status of master navigator by Mau through the Pwo ceremony, and went ...Show more
To Be Fair - Confessions of a District Court Judge by Rosemary Riddell
$43.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Retired judge Rosemary Riddell shares her reminiscences of life on the bench, complete with its humour, frustrations and poignant moments. A unique glimpse into a world most of us can only imagine, her story is a fascinating commentary on New Zealand life from the point of view of a woman involved in th ...Show more
and Remote Poor Furthest People First: M2H's Mission to Provide Mobile Surgical Care to Africa's Sick by Dr. Glenn Geelhoed
$51.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
When the world's remotest populations need medical care and training, Mission to Heal takes the operating rooms to them-no matter how far away they are. Dr. Glenn W. Geelhoed is a medical doctor, humanitarian, and the founder of Mission to Heal (M2H), an organization through which he has conducted medi ...Show more
Fifty Years a Feminist by Sue Kedgley
$43.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
A pioneering New Zealand feminist reflects on fifty years of feminism. In 1971 Sue Kedgley and a group of other young feminists carried a coffin into Auckland’s Albert Park to protest against decades of stagnant advancement for New Zealand women since they won the right to vote in 1893. From that day, s ...Show more
2nd Earl Russell Morals and Misdemeanours of Frank Bertrand's Brother: The Marriages by Ruth Derham
$59.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Frank Russell was the grandson of Prime Minister Lord John Russell and elder brother of philosopher and political activist Bertrand Russell. He was, in his own right, a radical political reformer and outspoken self-determined moralist. He was also the black sheep of his illustrious family: a serial adul ...Show more
Where We Swim by Ingrid Horrocks
$38.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
‘I’d wanted to remember why it was we swam in the first place – to remember the pleasure of immersing in an element other than air.’ Ingrid Horrocks had few aspirations to swimming mastery, but she had always loved being in the water. She set out on a solo swimming journey, then abandoned it for a diffe ...Show more
We Will Not Cease by Archibald Baxter
$32.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
To oppose the military machine means to accept the possibility that one may be destroyed by it. - Archibald BaxterWe Will Not Cease is the unflinching account of New Zealander Archibald Baxter's brutal treatment as a conscientious objector during World War I.In 1915, when Baxter was 33, he was arrested, ...Show more
Diego Armando Maradona by Harry Harris
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The death of Diego Maradona in November 2020 shocked the football world but he left behind a unique legacy following a playing career packed with amazing moments on the pitch and controversy off it. Award-winning football journalist Harry Harris gives his personal perspective on Maradona's life story as ...Show more