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100 Days That Mapped a Nation by Graeme Lay
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | 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
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
Alice and Luigi : A novel by Graeme Lay
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The year is 1878. Luigi Galoni, a young Italian fisherman, is forced to flee his home in Pesaro and sail to New Zealand. He joins a boyhood friend, Leopoldo, in the Haast region, and together they try to break in their land. But Luigi must move on again, first to Westport, then to the isolated coast of ...Show more
Fletcher of the Bounty by Graeme Lay
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
The story of Fletcher Christian, sailor, adventurer and mutineer of the HMS Bounty. On the 28th of April 1789, mutineer Fletcher Christian seized command of the ship HMS Bounty from its captain, William Bligh. Fletcher of the Bounty is a fictional account of the Tahitian voyage, the mutiny and its myste ...Show more
Globetrotter Best of Auckland by Lay, Graeme
$10.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Globetrotter "The Best of"
Small format. Ideal for making the most of a short visit, this pocket guide is packed full of the city's highlights including activities, accommodation, entertainment and excursions.
Golden Weather : North Shore Writers Past and Present by Graeme Lay & Jack Ross (eds)
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
This collection celebrates the past and the present. Famous names, and others not so well-known, make 'The Shore', that fabled Auckland region, a living, integral character in stories and poems. For dipping into and for savouring Golden Weather presents a roll call of writers from the Shore including ...Show more
Home & Away: Award-winning Travel Stories by New Zealand Writers by Graeme Lay
$35.00 NZD
Category: General 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
$50.00 NZD
Category: History | 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
Inside the Cannibal Pot - Different ways to travel the world by Graeme Lay
$14.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Reading Level: very good
On a tiny, sun-fried island in Melanesia, where visiting tourists provide the only income for a cash-starved populace, for a few bucks you can 'Have Your Photograph Taken with the Cannibals and the Cannibal Pot'. It's a microcosm of modern tourism, where the norms of cultural sensitivity are often sides ...Show more
James Cook's Lost World by Graeme Lay
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical 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
James Cook's New World by Graeme Lay
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Series: James Cook Trilogy 2 | Reading Level: very good
The sensational fictionalised account of James Cook's extraordinary second voyage of discovery, from the tropical isles of Polynesia to the icey seas of the great Southern Ocean, the furthest south anyone had ever sailed. James continued to stare at the vast, impenetrable sheet of frozen water. Beyond i ...Show more