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A New Zealand Christmas: Three Centuries of Kiwi Christmas Celebrations From the Alexander Turnbull Library by Sarah Ell
$34.99 NZD
$49.99 (30% off)
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction
This book is a treasure trove of Christmas Kiwiana from down the years. Drawing on the Turnbull's extensive collection, the selection of utterly charming Christmas cards, Christmas Day dinner menus, photographs, recipes, advertisements and poster art show the various ways in which we've celebrated Chris ...Show more
Explorers, Whalers, and Tattooed Sailors: Adventurous Tales from Early New Zealand by Gordon Ell (ed.); Sarah Ell (ed.)
$24.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: Very Good
Secondhand. This collection of first-hand accounts, drawn from early writings and out-of-print books, lets the first Europeans to visit this country tell their own stories of exploration, risk and adventure. Abel Tasman and Joseph Banks write of their first encounters with the people of this new land, ...Show more
First Encounters: New Zealand 1642-1840 (The New Zealand Series) by Sarah Ell; Gordon Ell
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: The New Zealand Series
Europeans had no idea what they would find when they first set eyes on Aotearoa. First Encounters selects some of the key writings from the early sea traders, missionaries, explorers and surveyors - covering nearly 200 years from Abel Tasman in 1642 and Joseph Banks in 1769, through to early settlers su ...Show more
Ocean - Tales of Voyaging and Encounter that Defined New Zealand by Sarah Ell
$70.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Lying in the middle of a vast ocean, Aotearoa New Zealand was the last habitable land mass in the world to be settled by humans. Our history represents the powerful coming-together of two great seafaring traditions, Polynesian and European.Oceantells the stories of pioneers and trail-blazers, from the b ...Show more
Our New Zealand: A Celebration Of Our National Treasures & Pleasures by Sarah Ell and Nicola Legat
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction
A celebration of New Zealand for both New Zealanders and visitors to enjoy and cherish. It's a big ask to sum up what makes a nation tick, and what its people treasure and love. It can be done by selecting objects, music, poems, songs, recipes, heroes and touchstones that stand for the myriad strands th ...Show more
Pioneer Women (The New Zealand Series) by Sarah Ell
$30.00 NZD
Category: Early Teen | Series: The New Zealand Series
The first two books in The NZ Series give a new take on New Zealand society, history, science and geography. Here is a snappily designed and fact-packed collection for intermediate and high-school age readers. Pioneer Women captures the experiences of European women who settled in New Zealand in the nin ...Show more
Sirocco the Kakapo by Sarah Ell
$24.99 NZD
Category: Children's books
Sirocco the kakapo is a superstar he has 10,000+ followers on Facebook and almost 4000 followers on Twitter. And you may have seen the incredible footage on Youtube of him trying to mate with a BBC presenter's head. Not only is he one of the last 131 of his species left on the planet, he has a very spec ...Show more
Volcanoes and Earthquakes (The New Zealand Series) by Sarah Ell; Gordon Ell
$30.00 NZD
Category: Early Teen | Series: The New Zealand Series
Get ready for a new take on New Zealand society, history and geography in one of the first two books in The NZ Series, a snappily designed and fact-packed collection for intermediate and high-school age readers. Here in striking and clear terms are the earth movements above and below New Zealand - with ...Show more
White's Aviation - Classic New Zealand Aerial Photography by John Sullivan; Ross Ewing; Sarah Ell
$60.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This magnificent book contains a selection of more than 200 images of New Zealand from the air. Taken from the White's Aviation collection at the Alexander Turnbull Library, these images of towns, cities, landforms and events were taken from the 1930s to the 1970s, and show a landscape still familiar in ...Show more
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