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How to Sail a Boat
  

How to Sail a Boat (Paperback)

By Vance, Matt

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To be on the sea is something magical. It is to be under fleeting illusion of being free and beyond the reach of the land with its attendant frustrations and pettiness. Under sail you are immediately confronted with a simple set of rules that require you to observe intently and e ...

ISBN 9781877551857
Release Date 1 June 2013 by Awa Press
Interest Age All ages
Series Ginger Series
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Missing Pieces: The Swedish Tourists' Murders: the Haunting New Evidence
 

Missing Pieces: The Swedish Tourists' Murders: the Haunting New Evidence (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Wishart, Ian

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In 1989, two young Swedish tourists disappeared into thin air during their dream holiday in New Zealand. Missing Pieces retraces their steps as investigative journalist and bestselling author Wishart unravels the story.

ISBN 9780987657374
Published 20 December 2012 by Howling at the Moon
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Civilisation: Twenty Places at the Edge of the World
 

Civilisation: Twenty Places at the Edge of the World (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Braunias, Steve

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Stories of people living in Apia, Collingwood, Greymouth, Hauraki Plains, Hicks Bay, Maromaku Valley, Mercer, Miranda, Mosgiel, Mt Roskill, Ohinemutu, Pegasus, St Bathans, Scott Base, Tangimoana, Wainuiomata, Waiouru, Wanaka, Whakarewarewa, Whanganui, Winton"--Publisher informati ...

ISBN 9781877551352
Published 6 December 2012 by Awa Press
Interest Age All ages
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Voices from the Sea
 

Voices from the Sea (Paperback, New title)

By Mackay, Deidre

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Voices from the Sea tells the stories of fifteen prominent fishing families from the Nelson and Marlborough regions. In their own voices the members of a number of generations tell the vicissitudes and rewards of their seafaring lifestyle. From the era of handlining out of a clin ...

ISBN 9780476010505
Published 1 March 2007 by Nationwide Books
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The Ghost Horse
 

The Ghost Horse (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Layden, Joe

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The Ghost Horse is the true story of a one-eyed club-footed racehorse and trainer., Tim Snyder, who scraped together every penny he had to purchase the unwanted filly.

ISBN 9781742613178
Release Date 1 June 2013 by Pan Macmillan
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Lost in Shangri-La: Escape from a Hidden World - A True Story
  

Lost in Shangri-La: Escape from a Hidden World - A True Story (Hardback)

By Zuckoff, Mitchell

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An utterly gripping non-fiction adventure narrative, 'Lost in Shangri-La' is an untold true story of war, anthropology, survival, discovery, heroism, and a near-impossible rescue mission.

ISBN 9780007386635
Published 17 June 2011 by HarperCollins
Interest Age Young Adults
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Off the Track: More Tales From the New Zealand Bush
 

Off the Track: More Tales From the New Zealand Bush (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Lester, Big Al

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'Those of you with a sense of humour, a love of hunting and a liking for yarns about the characters that roam the New Zealand mountains, this book is for you.'Big Al' once again revisits his beloved terrain: yarns of off-road New Zealand. With his characteristic humour and love f ...

ISBN 9780143009856
Published 4 August 2008 by Penguin
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The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island

The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (Paperback)

By Hooper, Chloe

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The story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher Hurley, and of the struggle to bring him to trial. A ...

ISBN 9780143010661
Published 9 September 2009 by Penguin
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Ten Degrees of Reckoning
  

Ten Degrees of Reckoning (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Rumberg, Hester

In 1993, Judith and Michael Sleavin and their two children set out to live their dream: to circumnavigate the world on their sailboat Melinda Lee. But one night, a freighter off the coast of New Zealand altered its course by a mere ten degrees. And changed everything. After 44 ho ...

ISBN 9780143011354
Published 2 March 2009 by Penguin
Interest Age Young Adults
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Trapped: Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury Earthquake
  

Trapped: Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury Earthquake (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Van Beynen, Martin

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'It was all so sudden. Twenty seconds and then silence. I started calling out, 'Can anyone hear me?' - nothing but silence. Over the next few hours I heard hysterical sobbing and people clapping as others were rescued. I could hear engines, drilling and what sounded like sledgeha ...

ISBN 9780143567233
Published 25 January 2012 by Penguin
Interest Age Young Adults
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