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NEW ZEALAND PANORAMA.By Oliver Bolch. Hardback, 250mm x 170mm, 52 pages, full colour photographs.
This is the New Zealand Edition of a series of illustrated volumes presenting the most beautiful countries, cities and regions of the world. These are captured in impressive, full-spread panoramic photographs, introduced by a text that describes the country, its people and history.
NZ$30.00 + delivery.
SMITHSONIAN OCEAN - OUR WATER OUR WORLD.By Deborah Cramer. Hardcover, 238m x 286mm, 295 pages, full colour photos.
When ocean basins open and continents collide, the earth recycles itself. With each turn, there is a new sea and new life. Or so it was for the first three and a half billion years, before humans walked out of Africa and populated the globe in a mere 200,000 years.
How did we - latecomers on creation's scene - forget that all life depends on the sea? It is a sea we are destroying faster than we can come to know its extraordinary diversity. A sea on which climate depends, which gives us oxygen to breathe, and that now holds the key to our future.
NZ$50.00 + delivery.
NEW ZEALAND LANDSCAPES. By Andris Apse. Hbk, 185mm x 134mm, 116 pages, full colour photographs.
This book is devoted to the work of Andris Apse, New Zealand's pre-eminent panoramic landscape photographer. This new pocket edition presents a scaled-down version of this best-selling classic, which has recently been completely revised and updated. It features over 70 of Andris Apse's best images patiently crafted during 30 years of work throughout New Zealand. All New Zealand's major landscape elements are represented in these photographs, with chapters on the coastline, lowland wilderness, pastoral land, the high country, mountains and islands.
These photographs brilliantly illustrate Andris Apse's mastery of the panoramic camera, and show how well he is able to portray the expansiveness and sense of space that are such potent elements in the New Zealand landscape.
NZ$20.00 + delivery.
ANTARCTIC OASIS. By Tim and Pauline Carr, Hardback, 260 x 285mm, full colour photographs.
After 25 years of cruising the world's oceans, renowned sailors Pauline and Tim Carr found themselves drawn to the lonely places of the higher latitudes to experience earth's last unspoiled regions. This book records the culmination of those exploits. Genuine adventurers, the Carrs have lived year-round on South Georgia for five years, the island's only permanent inhabitants, experiencing a way of life that has all but vanished from our modern world.
A forgotton remnant of the far-flung British Empire, South Georgia is a splendid if forbidding land of towering, glacier-clad mountains with a treacherous, storm-torn coast indented with sheltered bays. During its polar summer, the island's verdant shoreline offers Antarctic wildlife a place to mate and rear their young. The planet's greatest concentration of seals, penguins, albatrosses, and other birds throngs the shores. Among the very few humans on the scene, the Carrs have learned intimate details about the lives of these fearless wild animals and their environment.
In winter as well as in summer the Carrs explore South Georgia's uncompromising coast abord their yacht Curlew. Their expeditions include skiing, mountaineering, and glacier travel to reach South Georgia's hinterland and cross the island. Their journeys often cover terrain first visited by Captain Cook, Captain Weddell, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, and they also experience the Antarctic's dramatic forces of nature: blizzards, winds far in excess of hurricane force, icebregs, and pack ice. The Carr's deep fascination with the island, its wildlife, and its history will stir the spirit of adventure and discovery in us all.
NZ$85.00 + Delivery
PACIFIC JOURNEYs.
Photographs By Peter Hendrie. Hbk, landscape 335mm x 235mm, 224 pages.
This is a glorious book of large page, landscape colour photography to which, regrettably, our web site cannot do justice. To anyone fortune enough to have visited some of the places captured in the photography, the atmosphere and culture, the warmth of the sun and brightness of the light, the purity of the air and the lush tropical green of the countryside can all be vividly sensed in these wide, crystal clear plates. I can't think of a better advertisement for the Pacific Island, beach-coaming cruising lifestyle!
The places that the photographer visits are:
- Papua New Guinea,
- The Solomon Islands,
- Vauatu,
- New Caledonia,
- Fiji,
- Tonga,
- Samoa,
- The Cook Islands,
- Tahiti and the Society Islands,
- The Marquesas,
- Easter Island, and
- The Hawaiian Islands
NZ$70.00 + delivery.
LIGHTHOUSES.
By Running Press. Hardback, 225mm x 223mm, 96 pages.
For centuries, they have lit the way home for millions of men and women at sea, casting beacons of safety on coasts throughout North America, Europe, and the world. Through evocative photographs this beautifully illustrated volume celebrates lighthouses such as America's tallest, Cape Hatteras Light in North Carolina, and the Beachy Head Lighthouse in East Sussex, on the highest chalk sea cliff in Great Britain.
There are also historical facts, and fascinating trivia - for example, a keeper in Maine trained his dog to ring a fog bell, warning ships of danger!
Also included are engaging first-person observations from the remarkable men and women who've guided ships from harm's way. Lighthouses is an international celebration of extraordinary monuments that have shone a light of safety and hope throughout history.
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THE GREAT CLASSIC YACHT REVIVAL.
By Nic Compton. Hardback, 238mm x 298mm, 192 pages, full colour photographs .
The classic yacht circuit has never been stronger than it is now, with magnificent gatherings of historic vessels taking place around the world and millions of people attending the main traditional boat festivals.
The Greatest Classic Yacht Revival introduces the significant boats, builders, designers and restorers, and explores how the movement has become a worldwide phenomenon, from the USA to Europe and Australia. Author, photographer and yachtsman Nic Compton traces the history of the classic yacht, from its demise in the mid 20th century to its recent resurgence.
This aspirational volume is a visual tribute to the sheer splendor, timeless elegance, impeccable design and performance that define what classic yachts are about, be they legendary vintage craft or today's stunning "modern classic".
NZ$85.00 + delivery.
CAST AWAY.
By Joseph Cummins. Paperback, 186mm x 228mm, 335 pages, colour photographs .
Cast Away recounts 24 epic tales of the victims of shipwreck, mutiny and marooning, through history and around the globe, focusing on the age of sail and steam. This enthralling book captures some of the most exciting and bizarre stories of the sea, encompassing the predations of pirates; the last-resort horrors of cannibalism; encounters with ferocious indigenous tribes; the unleashed madness of psychopaths; and, always, the desperate attempt to survive against all odds. And of course, behind every tale of tragedy or triumph, lies the eternal mystery and majesty of the merciless, unpredictable ocean.
Illustrated with maps and contemporary images, and incorporating many accounts in the castaways' own words, this fascinating collection of real-life adventure stories makes gripping reading.
NZ$50.00 + delivery.
AQUA (WATER).
By Fernando de Haro and Omar Fuentes. Softback, 130mm x 200mm, 62 pages, full colour photographs.
Another delightful volume in the Small Book series, this one presents images and comments on a range of home water features, including reflecting pools, fountains and swimming pools.
Was NZ$10.00 + delivery
Now NZ$5.00 + delivery.
CASAS DE PLAYA (BEACH HOUSES).
By Fernando de Haro and Omar Fuentes. Softback, 130mm x 200mm, 62 pages, full colour photographs.
This delightful volume in the Small Book series presents images and comments on a range of stunning beach houses.
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Now NZ$5.00 + delivery.
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