Mapping the World by . J. Schuler

$85.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good

With more than 400 historic maps, explanatory text and a timeline, this lavish book traces the exploration of the globe from the 15th century when the European seafarer first set sail across the oceans.

I Will Need Words - Colin McCahon's Word and Number Paintings by Wystan Curnow

$65.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good

Feathers and Fibre: A Survey of Traditional and Contemporary Maori Craft by Mick Pendergrast

$95.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good

Weavers of Song: Polynesian Music & Dance by Mervyn McLean

$120.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good

This book explores, in detail, 20 specific areas of the entire sweep of Polynesian music and dance. It descrives the musical instruments, the uses, performance, composition, teaching and structure of music across the entire region. Accompanied by a music CD sampler.

Two Worlds: First meetings between Maori and Europeans 1642-1772 by Anne Salmond

$125.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: near fine

Tarawera: The Volcanic Eruption of 10 June 1886 by R. F. Keam

$200.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: near fine

Cork of War - Ngati Toa and the British Mission: An Historical Narrative by Ray Grover

$150.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good

The Lagoon and Other Stories by Janet Frame

$25.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Series: Bloomsbury Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good

This collection of stories - Frame's first published book - appeared in New Zealand in 1951, while she was confined in a mental hospital. It won an award for her, and a threatened brain operation was averted. These stories bring into focus a crucial turning point of the writer's life.

We Learnt to See - Elam's Rutland Group 1935-1958: A Biographical Journey with Auckland Artists by Ian G. Thwaites; Rie M. Fletcher

$250.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: near fine

Frances Hodgkins - Paintings and Drawings by Elizabeth Eastmond

$55.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good

A beautifully produced book of 40 colour and numerous b/w reproductions of Hodgkins' work from public and private collections all over the world. (Internationally, Hodgkins is still the best-known New Zealand artist.) Colour reproductions have detailed full page captions. The book is prefaced by three l ong essays on each of the main periods of the artist's work, comprising the first major study of her since McCormick's 'Portrait of Frances Hodgkins' 1981. The three authors are university art history teachers. The book includes chronology, list of exhibitions, bibliography and name index and was published with help from the QEII Arts Council. ...Show more

Islamic Weapons - Maghrib to Moghul by Anthony C. Tirri

$125.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good

Great Cathedrals of the Middle Ages by Bernhard Schütz

$150.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good

From Chartres, whose stained-glass windows create patterns of light that seem truly mystical, to the Cathedral of Florence, whose soaring dome has been called "one of the engineering marvels of all time, " this glorious art book covers the major Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals in France, England, Germa ny, Italy, and Spain. 310 photos. ...Show more