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Alan Miller - New Zealand photographs by Alan Miller; Martin Edmond; Kriselle Baker
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: new
Lyricism, beauty and spirit inspire photographer Alan Miller’s personal response. He has said of his work that ‘you are trying to dig something out of things anything that can sustain you’. Alan Miller has travelled extensively and for prolonged periods in the pursuit of his subject matter. The mapping ...Show more
Barefoot Years by Martin Edmond
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
'The myriad of the living in all of their many forms, defunct, mutant, revenant or otherwise; traversing memory's infinite field.' Martin Edmond's Barefoot Years is a memoir in which the author attempts to re-inhabit the lost domain of childhood. It is evocative and poignant, detailed yet fragmentary, f ...Show more
Bus Stops on the Moon - Red Mole Days 1974-1980 by Martin Edmond
$39.95 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
Bus Stops on the Moon is a personal and a cultural history. As memoir, it is a sequel to The Dreaming Land (2015). A troubled and restless young Martin Edmond is on his way to becoming the wiser, older man who will sit down and write both narratives. As cultural history, the book gives us a participant' ...Show more
Endless Yet Never by Martin Edmond
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: very good
A short yet highly informative introduction to the life and work of New Zealand’s esteemed artist Colin McCahon. There is something about the way Colin McCahon’s life and work intertwine that resists interpretation. He always insisted it was the work that was important, not the life; while at the same ...Show more
Luca Antara : Passages in Search of Australia by Martin Edmond
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good
Luca Antara is a rich tapestry of history and the present. Essentially, it parallels the life of the author, an
The Dreaming Land by Martin Edmond
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
So here I am walking again an old path made new by the very fact that I am upon it once more, accompanied by familiar hordes: the fecund majority of the dead, the myriad of the living in all of their many forms, defunct, mutant, revenant or otherwise, traversing memory's infinite field.In the evocative ...Show more
The Expatriates by Martin Edmond
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The connection between a colony and its founder, centre and margin, is always paradoxical. Where once Britain sent colonists out into the world, now the descendants of those colonists return to interrogate the centre. This is a book about four of these returners: Harold Williams, journalist, linguist, F ...Show more
The Supply Party: Ludwig Becker on the Burke and Wills Expedition by Martin Edmond
$41.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Burke and Wills expedition of 1860 was one of the best equipped expeditions of the Victorian era but it was doomed to a terrible fate. Much has been written about the leaders of this expedition but what do we know of other members of the party? In The Supply Party, Edmond takes the reader on a physi ...Show more
Zone of the Marvellous: In Search of the Antipodes by Martin Edmond
$34.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: Very Good
In the tradition of Dava Sobel and Longitude, award-winning writer Martin Edmond uses his extraordinary intellectual breadth and imaginative reach to elegantly and lucidly execute his most ambitious project to date - the history of 4,000 years of the Western imagination and the Antipodes, Great Southern ...Show more
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