New Zealand Travel Guides
New Zealand (DK Eyewitness Travel Guide)
"DK Eyewitness New Zealand" travel guide will lead you straight to the best attractions this exciting country has to offer. Packed with photographs, illustrations and detailed maps, discover New Zealand region by region; from the glistening glaciers on the West Coast to the surfers' paradise Central North Island. The guide provides all the insider tips every visitor needs from the country's best deep-sea fishing spots to the best bridges for bungee jumping, with comprehensive listings of the best hotels, resorts, restaurants and nightlife in each region for all budgets.
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The New Zealand Adventure Guide
With well over 320 individual listings, The New Zealand Adventure Guide is the most up-to-date and well-researched directory available, and offers a smorgasbord of outdoor activities to be explored. Discover adventures in the air, on the land, at sea and in fresh water. Not just for the daredevils among us - there are activities for everyone, from ballooning and whale watching to mountaineering or black water rafting.
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100 Best Volunteer Vacations
More than ever before, travelers are eager for meaningful experiences. In the style of its two previous titles, "The 100 Best Volunteer Vacations to Enrich Your Life" is a two-colour guidebook, including engaging descriptions of the various opportunities to volunteer along with detailed travel information. In addition, an abundance of sidebars, describing nearby places to visit, little known facts, and more, provide depth to the experiences.
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The New Zealand Bed and Breakfast Book 2010: 2010
This is the 24th edition of "The New Zealand Bed & Breakfast Book", covering over 800 B&Bs, from the homely to the luxurious. The book is not simply an accommodation guide but an introduction to a uniquely New Zealand holiday experience, where B&B has expanded greatly in recent years. For the traveller who wants to experience the real New Zealand and get to know it's people, bed and breakfast offers an opportunity to do just that. All B&Bs which are newly listed are inspected to ensure they meet the Publisher's required standard. They expect that all B&Bs in "The New Zealand Bed and Breakfast Book" will offer a wonderful welcome.
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101 Great Tramps in New Zealand
101 Great Tramps of New Zealand contains all of this country's classic tramps, from internationally known tracks such as the Tongariro Crossing, the Abel Tasman Coastal Track and the Milford Track, to popular regional tramps such as Totara Flats in the Tararua Ranges, and the Around the Mountain circuit at Taranaki...»Buy 101 Great Tramps in New Zealand
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The New Zealand Book (New Zealand Travel Guides - The "Indispensibles")
This is a detailed study of the geography, history and civilisation of the country with 79 tours described in detail. You will find this of great use, both whilst planning your holiday to New Zealand and during your stay. Whether you are a short-stay or long-stay visitor, a business traveller, just doing a bit of armchair travelling or dreaming, or looking for an alternative lifestyle, 1,000 colour photographs and descriptions of nearly 2,500 places will help you plan your trip...»Buy The New Zealand Book
New Zealand Chrildren's Books
Awesome Aotearoa: A Kids' History of New Zealand
"New Zealand is certainly an adventurous country...we have forests and rocky beaches. We have earthquakes and volcanoes, and pools of boiling mud and these days we also have the All Blacks - a world famous rugby football team. Earthquakes, boiling mud and rugby players! Who could wish for more?" The famous children's writer joins forces with her country's top political cartoonist in this hilarious and irreverent history of Aotearoa - or New Zealand, to use its other name...»Buy Awesome Aotearoa: A Kids' History of New Zealand
All About New Zealand Birds
This fun and educational book features dozens of vibrant illustrations by talented artist, children's book writer and bird fanatic Dave Gunson. Over 50 of our most interesting and most loved native and introduced birds have been illustrated especially for this book by Dave. Each page features one large illustration of a bird and 100 words of text. All About New Zealand Birds is an ideal introduction to many of the birds of New Zealand for people of all ages. Accompanied by fascinating - and often humorous facts about physical characteristics, habitat, feeding habits, breeding information and more, this book is sure to appeal to the whole family...»Buy All About New Zealand Birds
This fun and educational book features dozens of vibrant illustrations by talented artist, children's book writer and natural history enthusiast, Dave Gunson. New Zealand's most interesting native and introduced insects and other invertebrates have been illustrated specially for this book. Accompanied by fascinating facts about physical characteristics, habitat, feeding habits, breeding information and more, this book will have guaranteed appeal to the whole family. Each page features at least one large illustration of an insect plus text. Some entries also include illustrations of larvae eggs, male and female, etc, as well as additional fact panels with interesting nuggets of information. All About New Zealand Insects and Other Creepy-crawlies is an ideal introduction to many of the insects commonly found in New Zealand for people of all ages...»Buy All About New Zealand Insects and Other Creepy-crawlies
New Zealand Movies & DVDs
Boy (DVD)
RRP $39.95 $34.97 Save $5.02 (13%)
With an inspiring mix of heartache and laconic humour, Boy is the coming of age tale about heroes, magic and Michael Jackson.
A box office smash in NZ Taika Waititi's film takes place on the rural East Coast where Boy and his younger brother Rocky are dreaming big, afterall it is 1984 and the decade of excess.
Alamein is their Dad and both kids have a vision of him which is somewhat removed from the reality of the situation.
'Boy', the movie, manages to turn moments of wonder to heartache, and back again, delivering some surprisingly hard hitting scenes.
It's a movie you need to see and will want to see again and again...»Buy Boy (DVD)
Country Calendar Goes Green (DVD)
Ten years after Country Calendar first appeared on New Zealand television, the first organic story aired. Since that time organic farming has become a regular topic and aroused huge interest with viewers.
Country Calendar Goes Green showcases eleven stories from throughout New Zealand, of farmers who are convinced that organic methods not only work but truly are the way of the future.
From 1976s first ever organic farming story featuring Cantabrian John Scott through to 2010s story of Alan Richardson, who is attempting to breed sheep that don't need docking on his organically run West Otago farm, Country Calendar presents various organic farming methods.
In addition, the DVD includes features on another farming method known as "biodynamics." The Milton and Rippons' wineries demonstrate their biodyrnamic grape growing method and Country Calendar documents the changes in biodynamics as we revisit the original 1981 story of John Pearce's Northland Farm and the follow up 1992...»Buy Country Calendar Goes Green (DVD)
Whale Rider (DTS)
One young girl dared to confront the past, change the present and determine the future.
In a small New Zealand coastal village, the Maori people claim descent from Paikea, the Whale Rider. In every generation, a male heir has succeeded to the chiefly title. The time is now. When twins are born, and the boy twin dies, Koro, the chief, is unable to accept his granddaughter Pai (Keisha Castl Hughes) as a future leader. Koro is convinced that the tribes misfortunes began at the time of Pais birth and calls for his people to bring their sons to him, in the hope that the new leader is among them. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfil her destiny.
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This landmark documentary series seeks to uncover the special bond New Zealanders have with the land. Journeying through our magnificent mountain ranges, lush forests and coastal harbours, this stunning exploration of the landscape around us discovers the effect it has on our national character...read more |
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Country Calendar - Best Of 2009 New Zealand's longest running TV show Country Calendar returns for it's 44th season. We've wrapped up the best bits from the 2009 season and packaged them on one DVD. We join tuna fishermen, truffle farmers, cattle musterers and possum hunters among many others and get to see more of the people that give New Zealand the iconic image built up over generations on the land...read more |
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Beautiful New Zealand - The Four Seasons Beautiful New Zealand captures the essence of this truly unique land. |
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There is one man in New Zealand still passionate enough about our rails and the country they roll through, to put words into action. A train buff himself, Marcus Lush heads OFF THE RAILS, venturing from Bluff in the south to Opua in the North, on a remarkable array of railways - coal, freight, steam, railcars, even a jigger or two! This is a compelling series for young and old alike! |