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Secrets of the Sea: Story of New Zealand's Native Sea Creatures *Ockham 2023 Short List*

An illuminating tour through the native sea creatures of Aotearoa, by the bestselling author of The Meaning of Trees Secrets of the Sea is a fascinating introduction to New Zealand's fish and..

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Six-legged Ghosts: The insects of Aotearoa

Why isn't Aotearoa famous for its insects? We have weta that can survive being frozen, weevils with 'snouts' almost as long as their bodies, and the world's only alpine cicadas. There is mountin..

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Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning sea *Ockham 2024 Longlist*

Perhaps the closest a human being comes to visiting another planet is to descend into the sea. In Soundings, Kennedy Warne connects his lifelong exploration of the underwater world with a global story..

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Takahe Bird Of Dreams *Ockham 2024 Longlist*

Takahe are 'strange and wonderful avian beasts', big purple-blue birds with a striking red beak and legs. Once thought extinct, they were famously rediscovered in 1946 by Invercargill doctor Geoffrey ..

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Tamatea Dusky: Conservation and history in Fiordland's Dusky Sound

The remarkable story of conservation and history in Fiordland’s Tamatea/Dusky Sound, by Peta Carey. With a fascinating history, both Maori and European, it is the place where Captain Cook arrived in 1..

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The 50 Best Birdwatching Sites in New Zealand

Aotearoa New Zealand has a diverse range of bird species but is especially renowned for its seabirds. Fifteen of the world's 18 penguin species have been recorded in the New Zealand region. Nine of th..

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The Brilliance of Birds: A New Zealand Birdventure

New classy paperback edition of the earlier successful hardcover book, showing New Zealand birds as you've never seen them before. Who knew that the morepork, our forest-dwelling owl, can turn it..

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The Deep South: From the Wilds of the South Island to Antarctica

Landmark book of sensational images from Andris Apse, world-renowned New Zealand photographer. In his first new book in eight years, Andris Apse showcases some of the wildest and most remote spot..

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$NZ 74.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 74.99

The Field Guide To New Zealand Geology

This is the first field guide written for the general public and beginners in geology in New Zealand. Now fully revised and updated, it shows travellers in New Zealand something of the tremendous vari..

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The Forgotten Forest: The hidden world of NZ's overlooked plants and fungi

A guide to the spectacular oddities of the New Zealand forest, by the bestselling author of The Meaning of Trees and Secrets of the Sea. Deep in the forest, in places you would never think to loo..

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The Meaning Of Trees: The bestselling guide to New Zealand's native plants

The history and use of New Zealand's native plants A guide and gift book in equal measure, this treasure of a book pays homage to New Zealand's native plant species. The Meaning of Trees tells..

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The New Zealand Seashore Guide

This is the ultimate guide to the New Zealand seashore. New Zealand has over 14,000 kilometres of coastline, the tenth longest length of coast in the world, which ranges from sheltered sandy beaches t..

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The Road to Gondwana: In search of the lost supercontinent

The Road to Gondwana traces the steps science took to find Gondwana, and the journey Gondwana itself took through 500 million years of Earth history. The road to Gondwana took western scien..

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Treasures of Tane

This book discusses traditional Maori uses of native plants of the South Island of New Zealand and traditions around them. The text describes the features and uses of each plant, listed alphabetically..

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Vanishing Ice: Stories of New Zealand's Glaciers

Written by Lynely Hargreaves, this important new book describes New Zealand's glaciers, and how we have interacted with them. Glaciation has had a huge impact on the shape of the New Zealand landscape..

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Weather and Climate of Australia and New Zealand: 2nd Edition

Comprehensively revised and updated in its second edition, The Weather and Climate of Australia and New Zealand provides an introduction to the basic concepts underlying the science of the atmosphere ..

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Which Native Forest Plant? 2E New Ecology Edition

This best-selling classic by Andrew Crowe includes comprehensive information on the identification, ecology and uses of New Zealand's native plants. This best-selling classic by Andrew Crowe incl..

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Which Native Tree?: New Ecology Edition

This new re-written edition of the best-selling NZ classic Which Native Tree? now includes comprehensive ecological information on the tree and its environment. As well as the known uses of each tree,..

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Which New Zealand Bird?: A Simple Step-by-Step Guide to the Identification of New Zealand's Native and Introduced Birds

This unique book is designed to appeal to children and adults alike ...'there has never been an identification book like this in New Zealand,' says Andrew Crowe. The book covers 98 endemic, native, in..

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Which New Zealand Insect?

This excellent book focuses on insects only, not on other invertebrates (spiders, centipedes, worms, snails, slugs, etc) as in the best-selling Life-Size Guide to Insects. Unlike the Life-Size Guide, ..

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$NZ 34.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 34.99

Which New Zealand Seashell?

An illustrated guide that helps you find out simply and accurately Which seashell is it? It includes life-size colour photographs of over130 seashells including, for each shell, their size, ..

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Which New Zealand Spider? Including Their 8-legged Cousins: the Harvestmen, False Scorpions, Mites, Ticks & Sea Spiders

A book that makes it simple to identify a spider and learn about its lifestyle. In this new companion to his award-winning Which New Zealand Insect? Andrew Crowe showcases New Zealand spiders, with pr..

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Wild Dunedin: The natural history of New Zealand's wildlife capital

Dunedin city and its environs are home to an amazing range of habitats and landscapes, of plants, animals, birds, insects and geological features. From the ocean, with its albatrosses and penguins, to..

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