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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: New Zealand
Dorling Kindersley 2012; US$ 25.00New, expanded edition: the world's best full-color travel guides just got better. This volume in the award-winning Eyewitness Travel Guides series show New Zealand as it has never been shown before. With the help of this guide, you can explore the sites with 3-D cutaways, and get the inside scoop on the best restaurants, museums, shops markets, festivals,... more...
New Zealand As It Might Have Been 2
Victoria University Press 2011; US$ 13.00A mix of short stories and commentariessome whimsical, some grimthis work of creative conjecture offers a perceptive and positive new slant on significant New Zealand events and personalities. With a modest degree of adjustment, this compilation examines what if” scenarios ranging from the historical and literary to the athletic... more...
Arawata Bill
Exisle Publishing 2012; US$ 9.99Arawata Bill (18651947) was a pioneering folk hero, prospecting for gold and other minerals and making new tracks in unexplored areas. His feats of endurance and tenacity, coupled with his charming eccentricity, have captured the imagination of generations, and Denis Glover immortalised him in his famous poem, Arawata Bill. A Californian... more...
Once Upon A Cowpat
Exisle Publishing 2012; US$ 9.99Once Upon A Cowpat is an enjoyable collection of rural yarns, on subjects ranging from country rugby, shonky farm machinery and the Hokitika Wild Foods Festival, to uppity animals, pub brawls and Mystery Creek. The characters include oddball farming types, tough hunter-gatherers, ten-acre blockers and gormless youths not forgetting... more...
Roosters I Have Known
Awa Press 2009; US$ 10.99Well crafted and piercingly insightful, this collection of Steve Braunias?s 2007 interviews of New Zealand's famous and infamous?both publicity-seekers and those desperate to hide from the spotlight?is a humorous and biting survey of the national psyche. Ranging from the disturbingly naïve to the gloriously vain, from food critics to politicians, these... more...
Smoking in Antarctica
Awa Press 2010; US$ 11.99From the perspective of a passionate New Zealand columnist, this diverse collection from Steve Braunias is a provocative commentary on society, politics, and the recession. From lambasting airhead politicians, apostrophe vigilantes, and purveyors of awful food to reflecting upon his experiences as a father, his travels in Antarctica, and his finally... more...
Fish of the Week
Awa Press 2009; US$ 11.99A collection of New Zealand's most celebrated journalist's works, this lascivious selection of Steve Braunias's columns addresses a variety of topics, including the current state of New Zealand steak, the beauty of mangroves, the lunacy of film festivals, the attractions of small towns, the charms of Cambridge University, and the strange habits of... more...
Civilisation
Awa Press 2012; US$ 11.99Civilisation is Steve Braunias at his best, the scavenger of social lodestone, rich, fascinating and occasionally disturbing stories of settlements?from Kawakawa in the north, to Mosgiel in the south, and Samoa and Antarctica over the seas?and the people who live in them, their lives, loves, aspirations, and sometimes dark secrets. more...
Kiwis Might Fly
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 13.00Polly Evans was a woman with a mission. Before the traditional New Zealand male hung up his sheep shears for good, Polly wanted to see this vanishing species with her own eyes. Venturing into the land of giant kauri trees and smaller kiwi birds, she explores the country once inhabited by fierce Maori who carved their enemies? bones into cutlery, bushwhacking... more...
Law Breakers & Mischief Makers
Allen & Unwin 2009; US$ 29.99Recounts the fascinating tales of 50 of New Zealand's most notorious citizens from 1806 until today. more...









