Maori Made Easy for everyday learners of the Maori Language by Scotty Morrison
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The complete and accessible guide to learning the Māori language, no matter your knowledge level. Fun, user-friendly and relevant to modern readers, Scotty Morrison's Māori Made Easy is the one-stop resource for anyone wanting to learn the basics of the Māori language. While dictionaries list words and ...Show more
Te Ara: Maori Pathways of Leadership by Paul Tapsell
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
From one of the leading Maori scholars of his generation and one of our greatest photographers comes this beautifully illustrated work that serves as a fine overview of leadership and challenges for Maori today
The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language by Graeme Kennedy
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Finalist - 2003 Montana NZ Book Awards, Reference and Anthology category. Many thousands of New Zealanders are familiar with New Zealand Sign Language which, like other natural languages, is a real language - a structured system of handshapes and movements located within a signing space. These form a sy ...Show more
Hamilton's Jet: The Biography of an Icon by John Walsh
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Second hand. This is the story of an iconic New Zealand company. The first stirrings of the embryonic engineering enterprise that became CWF Hamilton & Co Ltd began 75 years ago on a high country sheep station at the foot of Mt Cook. At Irishman Creek Station the inventive Kiwi farmer, Bill Hamilto ...Show more
Maori Customs and Crafts by Alan Armstrong
$8.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: Viking Sevenseas Pocket Guide | Reading Level: very good
Covers everything from Actions Songs (waiata Kori) to Xmas (kirihimete)
The Last Maopo: The Life and First World War Sacrifice of Wiremu Maopo by Tania Simpson
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: Near Fine
The incredible, moving story of Wiremu Maopo, the last of his line in an eminent South Island family, who joined the second Maori Contingent and went off to fight in the First World War. Wiremu writes regularly to his friend Virgie, and the story of Wiremu's life is woven around 40 letters that he penne ...Show more
Polynesian Navigation and the Discovery of New Zealand by Jeff Evans
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
The Polynesian navigator Kupe is credited with the discovery of the land his expedition named Aotearoa, land of the long white cloud. How did he and the many canoes that followed find their way without modern navigational techniques through perilous seas in wooden canoes? By examining myth, star charts ...Show more
High Country Legacy - Four Generations of Aspinalls at Mt Aspiring Station by Alex Hedley
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Second hand. Mt Aspiring Station is set in the craggy backblocks of Otago, between Lake Wanaka and the Southern Alps. The Aspinall family have farmed in this tough and unforgiving environment — on slopes so steep that horses cannot climb — since 1920. Their homestead sits by the confluence of the east ...Show more