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9781877443015
Clan Dragon order quantity
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NZ$ 29.99 each
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Author: M. Ross Davies
Published by: transpress
Dop 2008, Wellington
softcover
336pp
148 x 210 mm

When the world of Shard is invaded by the hordes from Cretos, few survive the slughter. Pursued by the enemy, they escape into the void: uncharted, unknown...
In his debut sci-fi novel M. Ross Davies takes the reader on a wild journey through mankind's long distant past.
336 pages, 148 x 210 mm format.
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9780099506065
Into The Darkness: 7/7 order quantity
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NZ$ 27.00 each
Author: Zimonjic, Peter
Published by: Random House Group
On the morning of 7 July 2005, Peter Zimonjic, a Canadian journalist living and working in London, was travelling on an eastbound Circle line train heading towards Edgware Road. Coming in the opposite direction was a train carrying Mohammed Sidique Khan with a bag full of explosives. As the trains passed each other in the tunnel, Sidique Khan detonated his bomb. Peter's train came to a standstill and he managed to smash the window in his carriage and crawl into the carnage where he and several others spent the next hour desperately trying to help the injured and dying. Into the Darkness will reconstruct the story of the day at all four bomb sites based on intensive interviews with dozens of survivors. In the form of a dramatic narrative this book will document the bravery, the triumphs, the despairs, and the shortfalls that occurred on a day when the innocence of thousands of ordinary commuters was lost forever.
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9781869418595
Pedal Power : Great Bicycle Journeys order quantity
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NZ$ 36.00 each
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Author: Roy Sinclair
Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd
In a bold attempt to combat inevitable dotage, Roy Sinclair set off to discover the world (more correctly, selected parts of it) by pedal power. In doing so, frequently accompanied by his Japanese partner, he experienced people of different cultures and languages in a way that might otherwise have been impossible. Inspired by a former New Zealand prime minister, he set off to ride the length of Japan (the first New Zealander to do so) in an effort to have a World Peace Bell gifted to his country. A meeting with a Wanaka winemaker, whose great grandfather held an early record for the Lands End to John o'Groats journey on a penny farthing, had Roy and his partner setting off to pedal the length of Britain. And on the whim of a pub yarn, he pedalled off to a famous monastery in the French Chartreuse mountains to discover the source of a centuries-old liver-punishing liqueur. Sometimes opinionated and more often unashamedly biased, his ... more
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9781869621469
The Celluloid Circus : The Heyday of the New Zealand Picture Theatre order quantity
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NZ$ 49.99 each
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Author: Wayne Brittenden
Published by: Godwit
As an ideal companion to "Celluloid Dreams: A Century of Film in New Zealand" which covers 1896 to 1996, this book presents a more comprehensive history of the heyday of the New Zealand picture theatre between 1925 and 1970, lavishly illustrated with many never-before-published period photographs. It is a richly informative and often hilarious record of a crucial part of our social history. The local picture theatre was the place for entertainment, socialising, courting and being kept informed through the all important newsreels. Wayne Brittenden has brought the era brilliantly back to life - the theatres, managers, audiences, censors, films and the unsung heroes of picture going - the projectionists.

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9780908876952
Antipodean Tales: Stories from the Dark Side order quantity
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NZ$ 19.95 each
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Author: Cain, Steven
Published by: IPL Books
Format: 210 x 148 mm portrait, softcovered
...the house in the alps that is not quite what it seems...
...the weight loss program with results no-one expected...
...a disturbing dream from a past era that comes real...
Enter the world of the macabre, the supernatural and black humour in 23 absorbing orginal short stories from New Zealand's leading and emerging writers, including:
Mike Johnson
Craig Harrison
Vivienne Plumb
Peter Friend
Patrick Hudson
Lyn McConchie
Reviewers say:- Entertaining trip to the dark side
"...A neat collection of worthwhile short stories; some blackly funny and most with a twist. Does nicely."

The Evening Post
"Some of the 23 stories here, such as those by Mike Johnson, Peter Friend and Bronwyn Civil, are polished and gripping. All show enthusiasm and imagination.
Fans of black humour and the supernatural will enjoy this compilation of New Zealanders' efforts in the genre."

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9781869791650
Auckland Harbour Bridge : 50 Years order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Renee Lang
Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd
May 2009 was the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Auckland Harbour Bridge, still the most iconic bridge in New Zealand.
Published in conjunction with the New Zealand Herald, Auckland Harbour Bridge - 50 Years is a wonderful celebration in photographs of the bridge's creation, development and anniversary.
Broken into sections, the book covers construction; the opening; extension (the clip-ons); toll booth closure; human interest stories; and the future.
The New Zealand Herald opened its archives of clippings and photographs to make this book the wonderful record that it is. 128 pages including 16 in colour.
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9781869791070
Big Ideas : 100 Wonders Of New Zealand Engineering order quantity
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NZ$ 45.00 each
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Author: Matthew Wright
Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd
Roads, bridges, dams, railway viaducts, tunnels . . . New Zealand is full of amazing feats of engineering. Our number-eight wire mentality has brought about some incredible engineering solutions to create structures and
systems to wonder at, from the Manapouri underground power station to Burt Munro's famous Indian motorcycle. Who designed these amazing things? How were they built? What innovative solutions did their engineers use to overcome problems of terrain, weather, materials and cost? From early Maori and European settlement through the boom days of the late 1900s into the Depression-era projects of the early twentieth century and on to the Think Big years. The book features 100 projects from around the country with informative text, fact boxes and historic photographs. This is a great book to dip into or read from cover to cover, showing the development of New Zealand's fascinating engineering heritage.

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9780473116651
Burglar Brothers Getaways: The Ride - Around New Zealand order quantity
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NZ$ 29.50 each
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Author: Jeremy Burfoot
Published by: Burglar Brothers Publishing
In February 2006 modern day adventurers Jeremy Burfoot, a Qantas 747 Captain, and his Aussie mate Brad Burton rode their Seadoo personal watercraft 5,000km around both islands of New Zealand to raise awareness of the dangers of skin cancer.
Also known as "The Burglar Brothers", these "crazy bastards" took 19 days including 147 hours riding to complete the trip. They had to contend with monster seas, a large shark with bad intentions, sore butts, a recalcitrant cow and the logistics of riding around one of the most beautiful but hazardous coastlines in the world.
This is the story of the ride but it also includes points of interest on the geography and history of the New Zealand coastline and amusing anecdotes along the way. It is a story of danger, excitement, drama and beauty, told in a relaxed informal style that is sometimes ridiculously funny and always entertaining and informative.
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9780908876969
Celluloid Dreams: a Century of Film in New Zealand order quantity
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NZ$ 39.95 each
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Author: Geoffrey B Churchman
Published by: IPL Books
Editors: Geoffrey Churchman, Stephen Cain and Patrick Hudson
Format: 286 x 210 mm portrait, softcovered
ISBN 0-908876-96-3
Pages: 144
This book was published in 1997 to provide the history of the first 100 years of motion picture production and exhibition in New Zealand. The first part of the book traces the development of cinema shows in the country from the earliest flickering, jerky "silents" in makeshift premises, through the grandeur of the 1920s picture palaces, to today's sophisticated multiplexes; examines the careers of notable impressarios and entrepreneurs; and looks at the controversy of film censorship since the 1910s. The second part of the book covers filmmaking in New Zealand since the end of the 19th century - the various types of productions by independents, government and television, challenges that filmmakers have faced, pioneers and standout figures in the industry, and the notable films that have been ... more
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9781869419257
Diggers, Hatters, Whores : The New Zealand Gold Rushes order quantity
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NZ$ 55.00 each
Hardback
Author: Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd
This is a first - a thorough and carefully researched history of the gold rushes in New Zealand - and it establishes a benchmark for future work on the history of the gold rushes. It's based on sound scholarship and aimed at the wide and growing general readership of those keen to know more about, and to weigh up, the history of New Zealand. The scope is the social history of the whole of the goldfields of the whole of colonial New Zealand from the 1850s to the 1870s. The early chapters of the main body will survey rushes chronologically. The later chapters will look at rushes thematically. Beautifully illustrated with sketches and watercolours of the times, this is both a wonderful read and a beautiful gift book.
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9783832793067
Ecological Living order quantity
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NZ$ 140.00 each
Hardback
Author: Elke Weiler
Published by: teNeues Verlag GmbH + Co KG
DoP June 2009, UK
256x326mm /220 pp
Hardcover with jacket, c. 250 color photographs

Features 2 New Zealand homes!
Harmony with the environment and conserving natural resources come up more frequently on the wish list for dream homes. From around the world, the 33 homes presented in this book show that glamour and green architecture can be ideally combined. The spectrum of approaches range from hi-tech energy- and resource-saving solutions and industrially prefabricated modules, to traditional building methods and local materials. Moreover, all of them successfully work with the climatic and geographical conditions of their surroundings. The spectacular experience of nature up close, comfort beyond compare, remarkable design, and a clean conscience all come together in Ecological Living.
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9780099512684
Flat Earth News : An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media order quantity
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author: Nick Davies
Published by: Vintage (Random House imprint)
'Finally I was forced to admit that I work in a corrupted profession.' When award-winning journalist Nick Davies decided to break Fleet Street's unwritten rule by investigating his own colleagues, he found that the business of reporting the truth had been slowly subverted by the mass production of ignorance. Working with a network of off-the-record sources, Davies uncovered the story of the prestigious "Sunday" newspaper which allowed the CIA and MI6 to plant fiction in its columns; the newsroom which routinely rejects stories about black people; the respected paper that hired a professional fraudster to set up a front company to entrap senior political figures; the newspapers which support law and order while paying cash bribes to bent detectives.Davies names names and exposes the national stories which turn out to be pseudo events manufactured by the PR industry, and the global news stories which prove to be fiction generated by a ... more
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9780333416419
Focus on the Concepts of Physics order quantity
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NZ$ 9.90 each
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Author: Barbara Bibby
Published by: transpress
Book describing the physics concepts taught at senior secondary school level. 65 pages in 148 x 210 mm format. Published in 1991.
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9781854105011
French Country Style order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
Hardback
Author: Barbara Buchholz
Published by: Aurum Press
This lovely book is quintessential French country. The authors take the reader on a tour of vistas from the Mediterranean Sea to Provence; country homes range from the rugged to the elegant. The text reveals to the reader the common elements to be found in the variety of homes found in the French countryside. Vibrant colors follow paticular painterly selection if one wants to create the true feel of a French country home. Shutters are French, not American. Lace is typically at the windows, or for a more grand effect billowing panels with French pleats, caught and pulled to the side about 3/4's from the top of the drop. Window boxes brimming with color are essential for this style, and borders of lavender would make you feel that you are really there. Terracotta roof tiles would complete the exterior view. Inside, the walls vary, but they definitely make the statement: "I am French". Terracotta tile floors are very common, but hardwood ... more
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9781580113601
Hillside Home Plans order quantity
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NZ$ 29.99 each
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Author: Editors of Creative Homeowner
Published by: Creative Homeowner Press
From small homes to large homes, "Hillside Home Plans" offers readers 300 of the most elegant, stylish, and efficient home designs available featuring the option of expanding the living area in the lower level. The wide variety of featured styles and sizes are selected due to sales history. With more than 250 color photographs, "Hillside Home Plans" provides a distinct combination of full-color photography and illustrations throughout of actual homes built from the featured plans. In addition to the designs, practical tips and expert advice guide the potential homeowner through creating interior and exterior accents for the new home.
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9781847920720
Hitler's Private Library order quantity
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NZ$ 59.99 each
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Author: Timothy W. Ryback
Published by: Yellow Jersey Press
He was, of course, a man better known for burning books than collecting them and yet by the time he died, aged 56, Adolf Hitler owned an estimated 16,000 volumes - the works of historians, philosophers, poets, playwrights and novelists. A passionate reader, his worldview was largely formed by the books he read. For more than fifty years the remnants of Hitler's private library occupied shelf-space in climate-controlled obscurity in the rare book division of the Library of Congress in Washington.Timothy Ryback is the first to systematically explore this remarkable collection, as well as several other caches which he subsequently discovered in Europe and elsewhere. The volumes in Hitler's library are fascinating in themselves but it is the marginalia - the comments, the exclamation marks, the questions and underlinings - even the dirty thumbprints on the pages of a book he read in the trenches of the First World War - which are so ... more
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9780143011415
Hunters, Rogues and Heroes order quantity
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NZ$ 42.00 each
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Author: Connor McKenzie
Published by: Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
Few know outdoors New Zealand, and the hunters who often inhabit it, as well as Connor McKenzie. Throughout his 50-plus years of hunting high jinks, misadventures and 'success stories', he has amassed all sorts of yarns - always worth the telling, usually hard-case and, sometimes, even true. Connor has contributed stories to NZ Outdoor Hunting Magazine and many other publications over the years. Illustrated with photos throughout, this motley collection is gamey, blokey and told in the author's legendary laconic style.
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9780091902070
I Never Knew That About England order quantity
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NZ$ 34.95 each
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Author: Christopher Winn
Published by: Ebury Press
This is the ultimate journey around England. Christopher Winn takes us to each county, to see where history happened, where people and ideas were born, where dreams took flight and where men and women now rest from their labours. To tread in their footsteps, to touch and experience some of what inspired and moved them is to capture some of the flavour of their lives and make their stories alive and real. Crammed with facts and information, I Never Knew That About England celebrates the places and people that make the country unique and includes history, legends, firsts, supremes, unusuals, inventions, birthplaces and gossip. You'll be able to visit the bridge where Pooh and Piglet played Poohsticks and see where Alfred burnt the cakes. In a small village in Bedfordshire you can visit the graveyard where Long John Silver and Wendy rest. These stories will bring any place that you visit to life (keep one copy in the car and one in ... more
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9780091927912
I Never Knew That About England (Illustrated Edition) order quantity
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NZ$ 64.99 each
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Author: Christopher Winn
Published by: Ebury Press
This delightful guide to England, organised county by county, is now published in lavishly illustrated format. Alongside the charming black and white drawings of the original edition now sit gorgeous colour photographs of rolling hills, famous monuments and hidden treasures, plus quirky posters from a bygone age. Crammed with fascinating facts and enthralling stories, Christopher Winn once again takes us on a journey round England, celebrating the people and places that make up the country - from history, legends and firsts to birthplaces and gossip. From Oakley Court in Berkshire, which served as the headquarters of French resistance during the Second World War, to Burghley House in Northamptonshire which grew the first tomatoes in Britain and north to Ripon, Britain's oldest city, this book offers a spellbinding insight into England.
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9780908876211
John Gully, Painter order quantity
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NZ$ 24.95 each
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Author: MCLEAN Fred
Published by: IPL Books
A5 portrait format, 192 pages including 8 pages of colour illustrations

A biography of the famous 19th century landscape artist John Gully. The result of 25 years' research, this fascinating history traces Gully's life from his birth in Bath, England, in 1819, his migration to New Zealand in the early 1850s, his settlement in the outskirts of New Plymouth, his forced shift from there as a result of the land wars to Nelson and the development of his art career from then to his death in 1888.
A considerable amount of social history of 19th century England and the contrast with settler life in New Zealand is provided as well as the development of the New Zealand art tradition.
Illustrated with period art, photos and a selection of Gully's artworks.
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9789622177864
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NZ$ 39.99 each
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Author: Rosanne Klass
Published by: Odyssey Publications,Hong Kong
When the going was good, a young American woman travelled to the then-remote country of Afghanistan. A classic memoir in the tradition of Rebecca West, Rosanne Klass's "Land of the High Flags" is an insightful account of the land and its proud people. She was the first woman to teach boys from the country's villages, at a time when Afghan women were still kept hidden behind veils. Klass writes of Afghan traditions, of stark, splendid landscapes, and of the enduring friendships she made at a time when Afghanistan was reaching out to a hopeful future. Hailed by critics when it first appeared, this reissue of a classic includes additional new sections telling of her return to Afghanistan as a journalist - and of what became of the friends she brought to life for her readers. This is a vivid portrait of Afghanistan as it was before Afghan life was blasted into ruins like the great Buddhas of Bamian by the wars and the Taliban.
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9780224062831
Lennin Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe order quantity
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NZ$ 85.00 each
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Author: .
Published by: Random House UK Ltd (A Division of Random House Group)
This remarkably ambitious book tells the story of the great social and political catastrophe that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945. In a period of almost continuous upheaval society was transformed by two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust and the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Combining a powerful narrative with profound analysis, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately argues that these tragedies are inextricably linked and that to consider them as discrete events is to misunderstand their genesis and character. Central, of course, to the catastrophe were the dictators Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler and this book makes unprecedented use of recently opened Russian and German sources to explain how their pursuit of utopian - and dreadfully flawed - ideals led only to dystopian nightmare. In a groundbreaking work Robert Gellately makes clear that most comparative studies of the Soviet and Nazi dictatorships are ... more
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9783836502917
Los Angeles, Portrait of a City order quantity
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NZ$ 180.00 each
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Author: Kevin Starr
Published by: Taschen
Los Angeles, this is your life. This book tells how LA came to be what it is today. From the first known photograph taken in Los Angeles to its most recent sprawling vistas, this photographic tribute to the City of Angels is first of its kind to survey in depth the full range of the city's photographic history. Exploring the cultural, political, industrial, and sociological history via the work of myriad photographers, the book examines the city's critical developments ranging from the real estate booms of the 1880s to the uncontrolled urban sprawl of the late 20th century. With over 600 images, the city is shown emerging from a desert wasteland to a horticultural Eden courtesy of imported water. Poignant events that captured the attention of the world, notably two Olympics, the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, and the Rodney King riots, reveal a city of many dimensions. The entertainment capital of the world, Hollywood, and its ... more
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9780908876839
Lust to Kill: Notorious New Zealand Murderers order quantity
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NZ$ 20.00 each
Author: McLean, Fred
Published by: IPL Books
Format: 210 x 137 mm, portrait, softcovered.
Pages: 280
Weight: 420 grams

Fred McLean here takes eight famous cases from the period from the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi to just after World War One, and with creative construction fully explores the emotions and thoughts behind the actions of those involved. The results are stories that make absorbing and even at times entertaining reading.
Covered are:

* Thomas Hall - a gambler who married into money, then to get his hands on it poisoned his father in law - then tried to dispose of his wife the same way. Yet he escaped the gallows. Was this because he was the nephew of a well-heeled former premier?
* John Caffrey - the boozey, moody merchant navy master who, when his financee stood him up in favour of another man, planned to abduct her and carry her off to a South Pacific island together with his "bosum mate" William Penn and his sleazy girlfriend. The plan went ... more
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9780955648915
Mediterranean Islands order quantity
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NZ$ 69.95 each
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Author: Charles Arnold
Published by: Mediterranean Islands
This definitive guide to the islands of the Mediterranean includes:
* Over 1000 islands and islets
* Data and statistics for all of the 218 islands in the Mediterranean that offer accommodation
* Expert commentaries on the Mediterranean - tourism, ecology, geology, history, plant life, wildlife, sailing and privately-owned islands
* Practical information such as best maps, sources of tourism information, yacht refuelling ports, best access and connections to neighbouring islands and ports
* Crowdfactor ratings: resident-plus-visitor total population in relation to the size of each island
*Over 250 colour photographs and 300 maps

An indispensable resource for travellers, sailers, tourism professionals, wildlife enthusiasts and everyone captivated by the timeless islands of the Mediterranean.
 
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