Bird Land: Te Kāhui Manu

Ken Hall, with Helena Walker, Christchurch Art Gallery, $60, August 14...

The Valley

Asher Emanuel, Bridget Williams Books...

The Secret Life of Fungi

Jay Lichter, Allen & Unwin...

Surviving White Island

Kelsey Waghorn, HarperCollins...

They Poisoned the World

Mariah Blake, Penguin Random House...

Omnibird

Giselle Clarkson , Gecko Press, $44.99...

Landfall Tauraka 250

Edited by Lynley Edmeades, Otago University Press, $35, October 16...

Kim: A Journey Between Two Worlds

Kim Rangiaonui Logan, Ugly Hill Press, $50, November 3...

Edible Weeds Handbook

Andrew Crowe, Penguin, $35, September 2...

Case Studies: A Story of Plant Travel

Felicity Jones and Mark Smith, Massey University Press, $85, October 9...

Reconnect: Tokelau Tā Tatau

Jack Kirifi, Mila’s Books, $30...

Fossil Treasures of the Geology Museum

Daniel B Thomas, Jeffrey H Robinson, Daphne E Lee, The University of Otago...

Geology of Karioi Volcano, Aotearoa New Zealand: Geological Map

OE McLeod with RM Briggs, CE Conway and O Ishizuka Geoscience Society of New Zealand, $75...

Mark Adams: A survey—He kohinga whakaahua

Mark Adams and Sarah Farrar, Massey University Press, $80...

Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty

Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith with Johnson Witehira and Yvonne Taura, Massey University Press, $45...

Unveiled: A story of surviving Gloriavale

Theophila Pratt, Bateman Books, $39.99...

The Chthonic Cycle

Una Cruickshank, Te Herenga Waka University Press, $35...

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When the forecast is just right, Irene and Crispin Middleton wake up in the middle of the night and put to sea....
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The blast of the harpoon may have given way to the click of the camera, but whales are still the cornerstone of commerce—and the subject of many a decorative mural—in the north Canterbury town of Kaikoura. In little more than a decade, marine ecotourism has transformed a coastal backwater into an international travel hotspot....
Health geographer Jesse Whitehead has been mapping New Zealanders’ access to healthcare, whether it’s the distance they have to travel to a vaccination clinic, or whether it would be more equitable to ensure vaccines are available at schools or GP clinics (it turns out that schools offer better coverage). These maps show the distance people […]...
The Paparoa Track, set to open in September 2019, is the first new Great Walk in 25 years, and the first built for shared use between walkers and cyclists. Traversing the coal-rich hills between Blackball and Punakaiki, it will pay its respects to the 29 men who lost their lives in the Pike River Mine....
As we honour and mourn those lost in the Pike River tragedy, we also consider the future of underground coal mining in New Zealand....
Welcome to the “Science Round-up”, the first of what is anticipated to be a regular summary of interesting science stories relevant to New Zea­landers. There are many worthwhile articles published each week in sci­entific journals, but where can they be found? In this first column I will attempt to answer that question. Access to current […]...
Publishing is invariably a one-sided relationship. You produce words, pictures, illustrations, then print and despatch them, as if tying messages to the feet of so many carrier pigeons. Occasionally a message comes back. And no matter what its content—whether affirmation or disagreement—there is joy in the completing of the loop. That is why any editor […]...
Whanganui is Aotearoa’s third-longest river. It begins on Mount Tongariro and flows 290 kilometres to the Tasman Sea, joined by thousands of small tributaries along the way. Whanganui iwi have long sought legal recognition of their relationship with the river. They petitioned Parliament in the 1870s for protection of their awa. From the 1880s, the […]...
New Zealand takes its first refugees....

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