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Wallace Darwin and the Origin of Species by James T. Costa
$99.00 NZD
Category: World Natural History
Charles Darwin is often credited with discovering evolution through natural selection, but the idea was not his alone. The naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, working independently, saw the same process at work in the natural world and elaborated much the same theory. Their important scientific contributi ...Show more
War - USA . Afghanistan . Iraq by VII (Photographer); Christopher Anderson (Photographer); Peter Howe (Contribution by); Peter Maass (Contribution by); Remy Ourdan; David Rieff (Contribution by); Seven Photo (Photographer); Alexandra Boulat (Photographer); Lauren Greenfield (Photographer); Ron Haviv (Photographer); Gary Knight (Photographer); Antonin Kratochvil (Photographer); Christopher Morris (Photographer); James Nachtwey (Photographer, Introduction by)
$85.00 NZD
Category: World Military History
War reveals the true story of what our country has faced since that fateful Tuesday in 2001. Featuring 223 photographs, insightful vignettes and three thought-provoking major essays, War is a powerful collaborative effort from VII, a cutting-edge photo agency cooperatively owned by nine elite photojourn ...Show more
When We Were Three - The Travel Albums of George Platt Lynes, Monroe Wheeler, and Glenway Wescott 1925-1935 by Glenway Wescott (Photographer); Anatole Pohorilenko (Text by); James Crump (Text by); George Platt Lyons (Photographer); Monroe Wheeler (Photographer)
$85.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
"The travel albums of photographer George Platt Lynes, publisher Monroe Wheeler, and writer Glenway Wescott are illuminating documents of the American expatriate years. Together, this extraordinary menage-a-trois spent the heady inter-war period frequenting Paris, Villefranche-sur-Mer, and other Europea ...Show more
Windows on a Chinese Past: Volume one by James Ng
$125.00 NZD
Category: NZ Gold & Mining History
Windows on a Chinese Past has been planned as a four-volume work, of which this is the opening volume, delving into how the Cantonese gold seekers and their heirs settled in New Zealand. Also, in a particularly interesting chapter, the author describes revisiting the Cantonese towns and villages from ...Show more
Writers Who Changed History by DK; James Naughtie (Foreword by)
$65.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
This stunning visual celebration of the world's most celebrated novelists, poets, and playwrights tells the fascinating stories of their lives and works. Lavishly illustrated with portraits of each writer, alongside photographs of their homes and studies, and personal artefacts - along with pages from o ...Show more