South Island Weekend Tramps by N. Groves
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
REvised & Expanded - December 2008 240x170mm /146pp This book collects together the best two to three day tramping trips in the South Island. Recognising that most of our tramping has to be fitted into weekends, photographer and writer Nick Groves has selected a range of trips that allow plenty of s ...Show more
South Island Weekend Tramps by Nick Groves
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Bird's Eye Guides | Reading Level: very good
The reality for most trampers is that their trips usually have to fit into weekends. This revised and expanded edition of the bestselling South Island Weekend Tramps is a collection of the best of the South Island's two-and three-day tramping trips. Featuring 50 new maps in the popular Bird's Eye style, ...Show more
South Sea Vagabonds by Johnny Wray
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
The true story of Johnny Wray's adventures after being fired from his day job in the Great Depression, building his own boat and spending the rest of his days sailing around the Pacific, living the life of his dreams, has become a classic and an inspiration to generations of readers, sailors and landlub ...Show more
Southeast Asia: An Introductory History by Milton Osborne
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The first edition of Southeast Asia: An introductory history was published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in a tantalisingly different part of the world. Subsequent editions (translated into Japanese, Khmer, Korean and Thai) have continued to document with g ...Show more
Southern Alps - Nature & History of New Zealand's Mountain World by Alison Ballance
$90.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: Very Good
This is a massive book - big in size and big in content. It's over 300 pages and includes about 300 images. Hardback and jacketed, it's a major natural history title. It's a celebration of the most phenomenal landform in New Zealand - the Southern Alps - the backbone of the country. This book tells the ...Show more
Southern Cross Crime by Craig Sisterson
$27.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Southern Cross Crime is the first comprehensive guide to modern Australian and New Zealand crime writing. From coastal cities to the Outback, leading critic Craig Sisterson showcases key titles from more than 200 storytellers, plus screen dramas ranging from Mystery Road to Top of the Lake. Fascinating ...Show more
Southern New Zealand Landscapes by Andris Apse
$20.00 NZD
Category: Pictorial
Southern New Zealand Landscapes showcases the visual grandeur of New Zealand's South Island through the extraordinary scenic photography of Andris Apse. This beautifully produced pocket-sized edition features a stunning selection of photographs from a wide body of Apse's work. Epic mountain ranges, maje ...Show more
Southern Night Sky Pocket Traveller (Pocket Naturalist) by James Kavanagh
$8.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Pocket Naturalist
An introduction to prominent stars and constellations in the southern night sky in the form of a handy fold-out laminated card. Clear illustrations and a handy glow-in-the-dark feature makes the star charts simple and practical to use. Designed to be used as a star-finder, the charts highlight only the ...Show more
Southern Nights - The story of New Zealand's night sky by Naomi Arnold
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Meet the night sky, down under Aotearoa New Zealand was founded on stargazing. It was celestial navigation that brought the first people here, and it was tatai arorangi, Maori astronomy, that helped people survive once they arrived. There is no better place on Earth to view the brilliance of other worl ...Show more
Southern Seas - Discovering marine life at 46 degrees south by Keith Probert; John Jillett; Sally Carson
$12.50 NZD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand sits in a very watery part of the world. The Pacific stretches out to the north and east, while to the south is continuous ocean. It has the fourth largest Exclusive Economic Zone, with a band 200 nautical miles wide around the country, including its offshore islands. Only a fraction of this ...Show more
Soviet Visuals by Varia Bortsova
$27.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
A bizarrely funny, nostalgic collection of images of life under the Soviet Union - from the Instagram and Twitter accounts that have amassed a following of more than 1 million. Welcome to the USSR. Marvel at the wonders of the space race Delight in the many fine delicacies of food and drink Revel in the ...Show more
Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kasakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan by Erika Fatland
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Journey through former Soviet Republics
Erika Fatland takes the reader on a journey that is unknown to even the most seasoned globetrotter. The five former Soviet Republics' Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan all became independent when the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991. How have these countries developed since ...Show more