History & Archaeology

Wild Dives is the ultimate tour of the world's most exciting marine wildlife hot-spots, and is guaranteed to whet the appetite of ers, snorkelers, ...

What animal has the most powerful bite of any living creature? What animal has compounds within its blood that can combat diseases for which humans...

A photographic exploration of the life of one of New Zealand’s favourite native birds, the tūī. Rex Auty has captured the tūī in his garden as they...

General Fields ISBN : 9781848351714 Publisher : UNKNOWN Imprint : UNKNOWN Product Type : books Special Fields Author : D...

One of the newest entries in Lark's "My Favorite Nature Book" series gives children a tour of the farm. Lush illustrations and fantastic, fact-fill...

Whale watching in Australia and New Zealand has become a passion for many people in recent years. This guide is for all adventurous people who want...

What can we learn about leadership from wild animals? This book looks at leadership from a completely different perspective. Our closest living rel...

General Fields ISBN : 9780753727980 Publisher : Octopus Publishing Group Imprint : Bounty Books Weight (g) : 0.772 Publ...

Insects are quite literally the largest subjects in the natural world, with more than 1 million species known. Using the simple observation that ev...

Antarctica a frozen continent where unique wildlife, an extreme climate and amazing adventures are found. A strong New Zealand focus develops throu...

Packed full of interesting and useful facts, this handy reference will help you to understand, appreciate and avoid Australia's most dangerous anim...

Incorporating everything from dragonflies, stick insects and grasshoppers through to flies, fleas and beetles, the world's million or more insect s...

Covering everything from elephants to elephant shrews to elephant seals, and from mouse-deer to deermice, World of Mammals is a photographic celebr...

A Tribute to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia and New Zealand showcases 125 of the best photography ever assembled of the countries most sp...

Wildlife photography onland is nearly always donewith a telephoto lens, withthe photographer rarelygetting close to thesubject. Underwaterphotograp...

This new addition to a popular series delves into a fascinating field of New Zealand's natural history. In prehistory, only a few bats, marine mamm...

'Welcome to our story, this history. Wherever in the world the bones of your ancestors lie, wherever their ashes may have been dispersed, here you ...

In a city that has forgotten and erased much of its history, there are still places where traces of the past can be found. Deep histories, both nat...

On 12 July 1863, British and colonial troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Duncan Cameron crossed Mangatawhiri stream, Waikato Maori's northern bor...

This is a book for anyone who loves Chinese black tea. Keemun is the first Chinese black tea to go abroad. In The Lady of the Camellias (1848), the...

Trying to understand the wonders and mysteries of the natural world has been a human preoccupation since the earliest times. It is therefore hardly...

Whilst the First World War had seen an exceptional growth in the use and production of military cartography, the global conflict that followed empl...

With the approach of WW2 the de Havilland Aerodrome at Hatfield went through a major expansion, concentrating on Mosquito production and developmen...

MISHAP 1968 - Caught in a sudden violent storm, the Wahine ferry foundered after running aground on Barrett's Reef, attempting to enter Wellington ...