Upriver - From the Sea to the Southern Alps by Colin Heinz
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Upriver will appeal to everyone who loves New Zealand’s South Island/Te Waipounamu and wants to find out more about the formation of its diverse landscapes and the story of human settlement since the very first landings about eight centuries ago. It will also provide all the information needed by those ...Show more
People of the River: Lost worlds of early Australia by Grace Karskens
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area, which was on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Award-winning historian Grace Karskens uncovers the everyday lives of ordinary people in the early colony, both Aboriginal and British.
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future by Simon Winchester
$27.00 NZD
Category: Rivers & Oceans
Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world's largest body of water, and - in matters economic, political and military - the ocean of the future. The Pacific is a world of tsunamis and Magellan, of the Bounty mutiny and the Boeing Company. It ...Show more
Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North by Clare Horatio
$28.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
'We are celebrating a hundred years since independence this year: how would you like to travel on a government icebreaker?' A message from the Finnish embassy launches Horatio Clare on a voyage around an extraordinary country and an unearthly place, the frozen Bay of Bothnia, just short of the Arcti ...Show more
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Canons
Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology and folklore. Lyrical and ...Show more
Down To The Sea In Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men by Horatio Clare
$33.00 NZD
Category: History
'Magnificent' Robert Macfarlane winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. Our lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden from us. In every lonely corner of every sea, through every night, every day, and every imaginable weather, tiny crews of seafarers work the giant ...Show more
The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina
$26.00 NZD
Category: Investigative Journalism
'Just incredible' NAOMI KLEIN**New York Times Bestseller**The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen- the high seas.The oceans are some of the last untamed frontiers on our planet.Too big to police, and under no clear in ...Show more
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
This is a pre-read / used book. Excellent condition - like new. This mesmerizing Australian novel has been a bestselling book around the world, and Hollywood movie rights were recently snapped up by Dreamworks, with David Heyman (Harry Potter) set to produce. It is the winner of three prestigious ABI ...Show more
A River Rules My Life by Mona Anderson
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The original and all-time classic of high-country station life in New Zealand Mount Algidus, the author's home, was one of the great high-country sheep stations of Canterbury, New Zealand. It occupied a mountain range between two ice rivers and lay in the very shadow of the Southern Alps. Published with ...Show more
Up the River: Explore and Discover New Zealand's Rivers, Lakes & Wetlands PB by Gillian Candler; Ned Barraud
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's | Series: Explore & Discover
The sixth title in the award-winning `explore & discover' series, Up the River: Explore & discover New Zealand's rivers, lakes and wetlands gives children an opportunity to look under the surface and see what special creatures live, around New Zealand's freshwater habitats - our creeks, rivers, ...Show more
Silt Road: The Story of a Lost River by Charles Rangeley-Wilson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fishing
At the foot of a chalk hill a stream rises in a silent copse, and is soon lost under the car parks and streets of the town its waters once gave life to. Captivated by the fate of this forgotten stream Charles Rangeley-Wilson sets out one winter's day to uncover its story. Distilled into the timeless pas ...Show more