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An Inward Sun: The World of Janet Frame by Michael King
$39.90 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
This accessible book features 120 photographs from the life of famous NZ writer Janet Frame, ranging from amazingly gothic family photos to new images of past homes and other significant locations. Accompanied by a lively text and Frame ephemera such as book covers, scribbled notes and even bus tickets. ...Show more
Being Pakeha Now - Reflections and Recollections of a White Native by Michael King
$35.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
A reprint of Michael King's seminal book on what it means to be a non-Maori New Zealander.First published in 1985, Being Pakeha Now became a kiwi classic, a strong reply both to Maori who were asserting their own identity and also to Pakeha who were mumbling that they didn't have a strong culture or ide ...Show more
Gallipoli: Untold Stories from War Correspondent Charles Bean and Front-line ANZACS by Jonathan King and Michael Bowers
$50.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Superb photographic book brings to life the untold stories of front-line Anzacs and the war Correspondent Charles Bean (Sydney Morning Herald) with photographs from Phillip Schuler (The Age). Although Australian originated, this book has significant NZ content.Gallipoli was a tragic campaign: 2000 Anzac ...Show more
Gallipoli - Untold Stories from war correspondant Charles Bean and front-line Anzacs by Jonathan King; Michael Bowers
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
"Nothing can alter what happened now: Anzac stood and still stands for reckless valour in a good cause, for enterprise, resourcefulness, fidelity, comradeship and endurance that will never admit defeat." - World War I correspondent Charles Bean. The Gallipoli campaign of 1915 was a series of deadly batt ...Show more
Koala Ark by Stephen Michael King
$28.00 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult
Through the smoke, in a tiny battered boat, Koala sets out to rescue the billabong friends. From the multi-award winning author and illustrator who brought you Three, Rainbow Bear and Leaf comes a tale of care, companionship and renewal.
Maori: a Photographic and Social History by Michael King
$45.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Updated and revised for this edition, Maori is the comprehensive history of the Maori people of New Zealand yet published. It combines the startling conclusions of contemporary scholarship with a range of pictures illustrating almost every aspect of Maori life since the advent of photography. Maori pres ...Show more
Milli Jack and the Dancing Cat by Stephen Michael King
$18.00 NZD
Category: Picture books
The paperback edition of a picture book full of joyful colour and energy, about a timid girl who finds the courage to live life on her own terms, with the help of a travelling minstrel and his dancing cat. Milli could take a thing that was a nothing and turn it into a something. She could find any old f ...Show more
Moko: Maori Tattooing in the 20th Century by Michael King
$40.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
Moko is written by Michael King, one of New Zealand's most celebrated historians, and photographed by Marti Friedlander, one of the country's most eminent photographers. One of New Zealand's iconic books, originally published in 1972, it was a milestone in New Zealand publishing. Maori subject matter w ...Show more
Moko: Maori Tattooing in the Twentieth Century by Michael King
$35.00 NZD
Category: General
This book is the moving story of a Maori art form that underwent a brief resurgence and then died. It is also the story of the last generation of Maori women who wore the moko.To research this book, historian Michael King travelled thousands of kilometres through the hinterland of New Zealand to find an ...Show more
Mutt Dog! by Stephen Michael King (Illustrator)
$21.00 NZD
Category: Miscellaneous
Mutt Dog is brave and fast and gentle and loyal and smart, but he's also hungry, and he doesn't have a home. Then one day his luck changes, and he at last finds a family--and a cozy, loving place to belong. With its humorous text and irresistible watercolor illustrations, this endearing story by Aus ...Show more
Splendours of Civilisation: The John Money Collection at the Eastern Southland Gallery by Michael King
$20.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Reading Level: near fine
In September 2004, John Money, Emeritus Professor of Medical Psychology and Paediatrics at Johns Hopkins University, concluded a research career that spanned 50 years. He cleared his office at the university in Baltimore, USA and returned to his near empty house. In preparation for retirement, his massi ...Show more
Te Puea - A Life by Michael King
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
Te Puea Herangi, whom Professor John Pocock identified as 'possibly the most influential woman in our political history', wanted an honest biography of her turbulent life. Michael King has written such a book. He did so with the full support of Te Puea's tribe, Tainui, and of her surviving family and pr ...Show more