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Collision by Joanna Orwin
$36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Collision - the violent impact of opposing forces; the clash of two different world views and cultures. In 1772 a disastrous collision in the Southern Ocean saw French expedition leader, Monsieur Marc Joseph Marion du Fresne, bring the tall ships Marquis de Castries and Mascarin into the Bay of Islands, ...Show more
Kauri by Joanna Orwin
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction
One of the largest trees in the world, the kauri is a natural wonder and a New Zealand icon. Its immense trunk has supplied timber for every conceivable use from Maori war canoes to modern European homes. Along the way, the industries that sprang up around it shaped national culture in ways that still e ...Show more
Riccarton and the Deans Family: History and Heritage by Joanna Orwin
$42.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: Near Fine
The story of Riccarton Bush and its association with the Deans family encapsulates the natural and social history of Canterbury. This story began several thousand years ago with an ancient floodplain forest, followed by its long use by Maori. The arrival of the Deans brothers in 1843 to establish the fi ...Show more
Sacrifice by Joanna Orwin
$26.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Reading Level: very good
THE SACRIFICE is a futuristic novel set in the top of the North Island and the Pacific. Decades earlier, eruptions around the Pacific 'ring of fire', and consequent devastating tsunami, had annihilated Western civilization and technology, along with most of the population. Those who survive revert to hu ...Show more
Shifting Currents by Joanna Orwin
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
It is 1853. Widowed Lydia Boulcott has remarried, hoping to escape her shameful past. An isolated new life in the kauri forests of New Zealand’s Far North offers the chance of a respectable future for her and her five-year-old daughter, Hannah. To her dismay, Lydia discovers that one of her few neighbou ...Show more
The Guardian of the Land by Joanna Orwin
$16.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
Guardian of the Land was first published in 1985 by Oxford, winning the 1986 Children's Book of the Year and is an exciting time travel adventure which also has valuable historical and ecological lessons. It has been selected as the fourth title in the Collins Modern New Zealand Classic series.Twelve-ye ...Show more
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