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Captain Cook's War and Peace: The Royal Navy Years 1755-1768 by John Robson
$70.00 NZD
Category: E&CC
Why was James Cook chosen to lead the Endeavour expedition to the Pacific in 1768? In a period when who you were and who you knew counted for more than ability, Cook, through his own skills and application, rose up through the ranks of the Navy to become a remarkable seaman of whom men of influence took ...Show more
Captain Cook's World by John Robson
$29.99 NZD
Category: E&CC
James Cook, sailor, surveyor, cartographer and explorer, was born in 1728 in Yorkshire and died in Hawaii in 1779. This is a set of 128 maps showing events in the life of the celebrated explorer. Beginning with his early years in England, his time in the North Sea coal trade and with the Royal Navy in C ...Show more
Chasing a Dream : The Exploration of the Imaginary Pacific by John Dunmore
$39.99 NZD
Category: E&CC | Reading Level: near fine
Early Europeans may have believed the world was flat, but by the Middle Ages there was widespread acceptance that it was, in fact, a globe. What remained a mystery, however, was what lay on the "other side". The belief in a vast southern continent went back centuries, and many expeditions set out to fin ...Show more
Dumont d'Urville: Explorer & Polymath by Edward Duyker
$70.00 NZD
Category: E&CC | Reading Level: Near Fine
Explorer Jules-Sebastien-Cesar Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) is sometimes called France's Captain Cook. Born less than a year after the beginning of the French Revolution, he lived through turbulent times. He was an erudite polymath: a maritime explorer fascinated by botany, entomology, ethnography and t ...Show more
Hoosh: Roast Penguin, Scurvy Day, and Other Stories of Antarctic Cuisine by Jason C. Anthony
$56.95 NZD
Category: E&CC | Series: At Table
Antarctica, the last place on Earth, is not famous for its cuisine. Yet it is famous for stories of heroic expeditions in which hunger was the one spice everyone carried. At the dawn of Antarctic cuisine, cooks improvised under inconceivable hardships, castaways ate seal blubber and penguin breasts whil ...Show more
Ice, Mice and Men + DVD by Geoff Simmons and Gareth Morgan
$35.00 NZD
Category: E&CC | Reading Level: Very Good
Our Far South is packed with history and wildlife, and is renowned for its breathtaking and photogenic beauty. But does our appreciation of the region run more than skin deep? Do Kiwis really understand how important the region is and what issues are facing it? In February 2012, Gareth Morgan trapped te ...Show more
No Ordinary Man by John Steele
$40.00 NZD
Category: E&CC
Arthur Purchas was said to be perhaps the most gifted person ever to come to this country. Surgeon and doctor, architect, engineer, geologist, explorer, musician, botanist, artist, priest, inventor; in his time he was one of our most prominent citizens. The Purchas story of exceptional achievement, trag ...Show more
Oceania by Peter Brunt, Noelle Kahanu, Emmanuel Kasarhérou, Sean Mallon, Michael Mel, Anne Salmond, & Nicholas Thomas
$165.00 NZD
Category: E&CC
250 years after Cook's voyage to the South Pacific, the dazzling and diverse art of Oceania, from the historic to the contemporary. From the remote shores of Rapa Nui to the dense rainforest of Papua New Guinea, the islands of the Pacific are home to some of the most culturally diverse populations on th ...Show more
One Hundred Fathoms Square by Bruce Alexander
$55.00 NZD
Category: E&CC
During 1957 and 1958, Bruce Alexander and Larry Wordsworth, two young and newly qualified land surveyors from Christchurch and Auckland, New Zealand, travelled to the Kingdom of Tonga to start work on an official Cadastral Survey. This book is an account of their work and day-to-day experiences while in ...Show more
The Death of Captain Cook and Other Writings by David Samwell by Nicholas Thomas
$84.99 NZD
Category: E&CC
Dop 2007, Wales 170pp softcover The voyages of Captain Cook are endlessly fascinating to a wide audience, and no aspect of them has been more controversial than Cook's death. This book reprints one of the classic accounts of this episode, the vivid and lively narrative by one of the voyage surgeons ...Show more
Vastly Ingenious: The Archaeology of Pacific Material Culture in Honour of Janet M. Davidson by Atholl Anderson
$59.95 NZD
Category: E&CC
Reflecting in 1769 on the manners and customs of the South Sea islands, Joseph Banks remarked that 'in every expedient for taking fish they are vastly ingenious.' Hence the title of this book on Pacific material culture, past and present, with broad themes of origins, the movement of peoples and the dev ...Show more
Whispers and Vanities: Samoan Indigenous Knowledge and Religion by M. Tamasailau et al
$45.00 NZD
Category: E&CC
This collection of essays and selected poetry responds to an address on Samoan religious culture given by Samoa's Head of State, His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Tupuola Tufuga Efi, to the 2009 Parliament of the World's Religions. The address challenges some fundamental aspects of and assumpt ...Show more
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