A Touch of Clay

Literature & Fiction

MAURICE SHADBOLT

Contemporary

David Ling Publishing Limited

A selection of 100 outstanding, memorable and sometimes amusing moments in New Zealand rugby. The stories are told chronologically from the first recorded game in New Zealand to the Sevens winning gold at the Commonwealth Games, and cover a wide range of backblock, provincial, Super 12, and international games, and famous players.

100 Great Moments in New Zealand Rugby

Tony Williams

Bacon is Not a Vegetable: (701 Tips for Flatting)

Raewyn Alexander

Olwyn Stewart

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hone Heke

Paul Moon

Biographies & Memoirs

Joybird

Rosemary Wildblood

For the first time, the world of the tohunga - which up until now has lain carefully concealed for centuries - is brought out into the open. Subject matters ranging from natural healing to modern life offer an exclusive insight into the realm of a great tohunga.

Tohunga Hoepa Kereopa

Politics & Social Sciences

Phil Moon

Social Sciences

Dark Sun is the remarkable story of self-confessed 'vagabond' George Dibbern. Following internment on Somes Island in Wellington Harbour in World War I, he returned to his native Germany where for ten years he struggled unsuccessfully to find employment and to adapt to the role of husband and father. In 1930, with his thirty-two foot ketch, Te Rapunga, he broke free from the impending scourge of Nazism, and the constraints and conventions of society. He was to roam the Pacific for the next thirty years, interrupted only by a second internment on Somes Island in World War II, and died in Auckland in 1962 while preparing to return at last to his wife and three daughters in Germany. 'My life is one with the sea. We respect each other and I have no other master,' he once said. He also maintained he answered solely to his own conscience, whose judgement was stricter than any statute of law. 'If you live in harmony with life,' he wrote, 'life will take care of you.' His book Quest, describing the initial four-year sea voyage that led to these convictions, was published in 1941 (Norton, Allen Lane).\nIt won the admiration of American author Henry Miller, who wrote to Dibbern 'as a brother', and whose compassion and support helped Dibbern's family to survive the devastation of Germany after World War II. Miller recognised in Dibbern a man, like himself, well ahead of his time. Meticulously researched and told with the narrative tug of fiction, Dark Sun gives for the first time the full compelling story of the life of 'German George'. It is a timely and inspiring chronicle of what one man accomplished and endured (as well as the repercussions to his family) when, acting on his beliefs, he sailed under his own flag, created his own passport - and 'took his fun where he found it'.

Dark Sun: Te Rapunga and the quest of George Dibbern

Erika Grundmann

So Old So Quick

Patrick Eisdell Moore

Here for the first time in one volume, are Maurice Shadbolt's three best-selling and award-winning novels The House of Strife, Monday's Warriors and Season of the Jew. Together they comprise his New Zealand Wars Trilogy, generally seen as New Zealand's finest historical fiction. Drawing on real events in the New Zealand Wars from the 1840s to the 1860s, these novels are rich in humanity with a narrative both true and comic. For sheer storytelling, wild adventure and power there is nothing that can equal these extraordinary tales of colonial New Zealand, and the battles and skirmishes between Hone Heke, Titokowaru, Kimball Bent, Te Kooti and the often blundering British Army.

New Zealand Wars Trilogy

In this remarkable sequel to his ground-breaking Tohunga: Hohepa Kereopa (2003), historian Dr Paul Moon again travels deep into Tuhoe territory - and deep into its past - to uncover a wealth of material. This time he reveals his discussions with Hohepa Kereopa on traditional plants, cultivation, gardening, foods, medicines, and other aspects of the natural Maori world. This book is indispensable for anyone with an interest in customary Maori life, and provides a unique perspective on the work of a great tohunga at the height of his powers.

A Tohunga's Natural World: Plants, Gardening and Food

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