MEDIA RELEASE FISHES OF AOTEAROA Paul Caiger “Nature, and in particular fishes, have kept me captivated for as long as I can remember. Spending time with fish in their natural habitat fills me with a simple joy. And observing any fish in the wild makes me appreciate that they each …
MEDIA RELEASE Tramping in Aotearoa: New Zealand’s Top 45 Tracks SHAUN BARNETT Published by Potton & Burton, September 15, 2023, RRP: $49.99 Tramping has been part of our national psyche for more than a century, predicated on our love of wild places and being outdoors. Modern research also tells us …
MEDIA RELEASE Commue: Chasing a utopian dream in Aotearoa OLIVE JONES Published by Potton & Burton, September 15, 2023, RRP: $39.99 Former commune member Olive Jones was a teenager when she joined a group of hippies, idealists and subsistence farmers at Tahuna Farm in Nelson and 21 when they bought …
MEDIA RELEASE Vintage Aviators: Aircraft of the Great War GAVIN CONROY Published by Potton & Burton, September 15, 2023, RRP: $79.99 The military aircraft which flew in World War 1 paved the way for aviation as we know it today and leading aviation photographer and pilot Gavin Conroy captures them …
MEDIA RELEASE Ngātokimatawhaorua: The biography of a waka JEFF EVANS Published by Massey University Press, 10 August 2023, RRP: $ 50.00 The mighty waka taua Ngātokimatawhaorua, whose home is the Treaty Grounds at Waitangi, was built under the aegis of Waikato leader Te Kirihaehae Te Puea Hērangi to commemorate the …
MEDIA RELEASE Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano COLIN MONTEATH Published by Massey University Press, 10 August 2023, RRP: $65.00 Antarctica is a remote and hostile place; it is also majestic and awe-inspiring. For decades, the icy continent has laid down the gauntlet to polar explorers, …
MEDIA RELEASE Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere Jade Kake & Jeremy Hansen Published by Massey University Press, 14 September 2023, RRP: $75.00 The untimely death of legendary architect Rewi Thompson (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Raukawa) robbed us of a visionary thinker who believed that great architecture is crafted through careful consideration …
Shadow Worlds: A History of the Occult and Esoteric in New Zealand ANDREW PAUL WOOD Historian, critic, and culture journalist Andrew Paul Wood takes a deep dive into the history of the occult and esoteric in Aotearoa in his engrossing book, Shadow Worlds, published by Massey University Press in July. …
MEDIA PREVIEW Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning sea KENNEDY WARNE Ocean protection is again making headlines after United Nations members agreed in March to a landmark ocean treaty. This agreement upholds the 30 x 30 target two decades in the making: to protect 30 percent of the world’s …
TAKAHĒ: Bird of Dreams ALISON BALLANCE Aotearoa’s redoubtable takahē were twice declared extinct. Hovering on the brink, the species was famously rediscovered by Invercargill doctor Geoffrey Orbell in the Murchison Mountains of Fiordland in 1948. His significant find of a small population at that time grabbed news headlines and sparked …