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Explorers, Whalers, and Tattooed Sailors: Adventurous Tales from Early New Zealand by Gordon Ell (ed.); Sarah Ell (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | 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
Lost Wonders: Vanished Creatures of Aotearoa by Sarah Ell
$25.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
The story of the lost wonders of New Zealand's natural history: the extinct species which are now gone forever. Lost Wonders also features some key species which are on the brink - critically endangered - and the efforts that are being made to save them for future generations. The stories of these fasc ...Show more
Ocean - Tales of Voyaging and Encounter that Defined New Zealand by Sarah Ell
$70.00 NZD
Category: World History | 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
Shoot the Breeze: How to Speak Yachtie by Sarah Ell
$20.00 NZD
Category: Sport general
DoP -April 2007. An essential guide to a language spoken by those who sail competitively or for fun. Essential for those absolute beginners who don't know their sheets from their tails, and will be a vital companion for all those following - and trying to make sense of - New Zealand's challenge for the ...Show more
Sirocco the Kakapo by Sarah Ell
$25.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-Fiction
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
Talking to Adam by Sarah Ell
$17.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
Katie is 16, right into sailing, school friends, and even more importantly, boyfriends. Oh, and it would seem she also has Hodgkin's disease. Lymphoma. Cancer. In Katie's world a bit of weight loss is a good thing. A bit of hair loss and fatigue, explainable. So it takes a long time for anyone, includin ...Show more
Volcanoes and Earthquakes (The New Zealand Series) by Sarah Ell; Gordon Ell
$30.00 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult | 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
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