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100 Days That Mapped a Nation by Graeme Lay
$59.99 NZD
$65.00 (7% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
October 2019 marks the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook’s first landfall in New Zealand. One Hundred Days that Mapped a Nation marks this historic occasion by looking at Cook’s intrepid journeys to New Zealand and the Pacific that were unprecedented for the time and had such far-reaching conseque ...Show more
A Travel Guide To James Cooks New Zealand by Graeme Lay
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand remained a special place during James Cook's epic voyages of discovery and exploration. He returned to the country several times, mainly to Ship Cove in Queen Charlotte sound, which became his favourite New Zealand anchorage. In his journals he comments on the great potential of the islands ...Show more
Home & Away: Award-winning Travel Stories by New Zealand Writers by Graeme Lay
$34.99 NZD
Category: Travel
Travel is in the Kiwi bloodstream: whether bound for Kaiwaka or Kowloon, we have an insatiable appetite for living out of a suitcase and, in select cases, writing about it. Edited by Graeme Lay, this new anthology presents 35 stories by award-winning members of New Zealand Travel Communicators, or Travc ...Show more
In Search of Paradise - Artists and writers in the colonial South Pacific by Graeme Lay
$49.99 NZD
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good
In this lavishly illustrated book, author Graeme Lay presents the lives of twenty-three of the finest artists and writers to have been inspired by the South Pacific, and a rich selection of their works. In Search of Paradise is a compilation of memorable visual and literary journeys, covering two hundre ...Show more
James Cook's Lost World by Graeme Lay
$36.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: James Cook Trilogy 3 | Reading Level: Very Good
On his third and tragic voyage of discovery Captain James Cook traverses the world yet again, increasingly and uncharacteristically brutal toward his crew, and on a fateful course with destiny. It seems that having discovered a new world, we have been doomed to then lose it. The year is 1775. Captain Ja ...Show more
Larry & Viv by Graeme Lay
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
“Larry and Viv is an extraordinary piece of first-class writing, built upon a marriage touge research. An impressive piece of first-class authorship.” - Max Cryer 1948. Europe is still shattered by the effects of World War II. For the British, austerity makes life bleak. They may have won the war, but i ...Show more
The Secret Life of James Cook - A Novel by Graeme Lay
$36.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: James Cook Trilogy 1 | Reading Level: very good
Novelist Graeme Lay re-imagines the peerless navigator James Cook's life up to, and including, his first circumnavigation of the world. A fictionalised account of the famous navigator's early life, The Secret Life of James Cook Cook's youthful ambitions, his early naval career, his marriage to Elizabeth ...Show more
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