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CHRISTCHURCH – A Portrait of Yesterdays
$35.00
GRAHAM STEWART
The author spent the first week of February – two weeks before the earth moved – shooting a photographic essay of Christchurch and the suburbs to complement photographs he had taken in the early 1950s. His colour photographs taken in February suddenly became yesterday’s pictures. The photograph on the front cover of the Cathedral was taken on 2 February, 20 days before the eathquake.
Christchurch, the suburbs and the surrounding town centres were dealt a severe body blow when the earthquake of Tuesday, 22 February 2011, struck at 12.51pm. It was New Zealand’s worst disaster in modern times. This book takes a look back in time at the city and suburbs before the magnitude 6.3 earthquake flattened much of its iconic structures and heritage buildings. It is a pictorial journey in both black and white and colour of a city in happier times; a book of memories, of a city beloved by New Zealanders and beyond; a city known for being ‘very English’ because of its style of architecture and many inner-city greens.
Punting on the Avon River, dining on the ‘strip’ in Oxford Terrace, taking a ride on a tourist tram, the Arts Centre, the Pier at New Brighton, and much more, are all part of life in this unique city.
Format: 250mm x 250mm Extent: 96 pages of colour plates
Limpbound with cover flaps
ISBN: 9781869341169
Bar Code: 9781869341169
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WELLINGTON FROM ABOVE
$40.00
GRAHAM STEWART
This photographic essay takes the reader on a flight of discovery over the capital city of New Zealand, to the suburbs and beyond.
Hailed as the best little capital city in the world – the cooliest! – it is the southernmost capital and is known for its friendly atmosphere. The heart of the city is compact, walkable and alive with restaurants and cafés that give a welcome with stylish à la carte dining and pavement outdoor casual fare. It boasts more bars, cafés and restaurants per capita than New York. It is a fun place to work and relax. Greater Wellington reaches to Upper Hutt and beyond to the Kapiti Coast and many beaches to the north.
Format: 250mm x 250mm Extent: 128 pages of colour plates Limpbound with cover flaps
ISBN: 9781869341152
Bar Code: 978186934115
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DUNEDIN – A Portrait of Today and Yesterday
$30.00
GRAHAM STEWART
This book gives an insight into a city through the decades: the imposing building facades, hills that rise steeply from the harbour centre, a look back at the city streets showing a city that has largely been saved from the demolition ball of the 1950s and 1960s. Like San Francisco, Dunedin’s little cable cars once climbed the hills right up to the stars!
Dunedin, at the head of the Otago harbour, is a city of dignified charm with elegant Edwardian and Victorian stone, brick and concrete buildings, majestic cathedrals and churches. Private residences with towers and turrets of architectural splendour, cast iron lacework balustrades, ornamental fretwork and finials; old villas and cottages.
The city was founded on gold discoveries in Central Otago by sturdy Scottish stock and is known as the Edinburgh of the south. For a time in the 19th century it was the largest city in New Zealand and the commercial capital of the country. Home to New Zealand’s first university, the first medical school and teachers’ college, it is a university town with a student population of about 20,000.
Format: 250mm x 250mm Extent: 64 pages of colour plates
Limpbound with cover flaps
ISBN: 9781869341176
Bar Code: 9781869341176
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COURAGE IN THE SKIES – New Zealand Airmen at War
$39.99
Paul Harrison & Brian Lockstone
A few extraordinary New Zealand pilots flew with distinction in the First World War but it was during the six years of the Second World War that thousands from this country served with honour, pride and gallantry in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, the Royal Air Force and the Air Branch of the Royal Navy.
The RNZAF had been a separate service for only two years when war was declared but it soon became a major force. At its peak in 1944, it boasted nearly 44,000 men and women and 26 fighter, bomber, flying boat, dive bomber and transport squadrons, aerodrome construction, radar, marine, and engineering servicing units in New Zealand and the Pacific and a network of operational and training stations, radar, repair, support, rehabilitation and headquarters units at home. Seven New Zealand squadrons flew with the RAF.
In words and a wealth of illustrations, aviation history experts Brian Lockstone and Paul Harrison recount New Zealanders’ path of glory across the skies of Europe, Africa, the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the Middle East, India, Burma, Malaya, the Dutch East Indies and the South West Pacific. More than 4000 made the ultimate sacrifice – a heavy price considering that, of the 140,000 New Zealanders who served overseas, 104,000 were in the army.
Both authors had the privilege of knowing and serving alongside many Second World War veterans. Courage in the Skies is their tribute to the personalities, aircraft and events of those memorable years.
Format: 250mm (depth) x 210mm (width)
Extent: 160 pages of historic photographs of the personnel and the aircraft
Limpbound with cover flaps.
ISBN: 9781869341114
Bar Code: 9781869341114
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WELLINGTON – The Best Little Capital City in the World (reprinted)
$24.95
GRAHAM STEWART
Wellington – the seat of government and the cultural and creative capital of New Zealand – has been hailed as the ‘Best Little City in the World’. Famed for its warmth to visitors, it boasts the largest number of bars and restaurants per capita in the country and is known for the public parties it stages to celebrate sporting events and live entertainment. Film director Sir Peter Jackson is based in ‘Wellywood’, where the Lord of the Rings world premieres were held.
The city is also often referred to as the San Francisco of the southern hemisphere because of the homes that cling to the hills and the cable car that has been running since 1902 from Lambton Quay in the heart of town to the suburb of Kelburn. The waterfront, from the railway station to Oriental Bay, is popular for walking, running, biking, fishing or just sitting and soaking in the sights and sounds of this vibrant city.
Birthplace of New Zealand’s most famous short-story writer, Katherine Mansfield, Wellington is also blessed with the nation’s best cricket oval, is alive with street sculpture and is home to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the national art collection and the New Zealand Ballet Company. And only 10 minutes from the central business district is the world’s first fully-fenced urban wildlife sanctuary.
This colourful and fascinating record of New Zealand’s capital city will delight Wellingtonians and visitors alike.
250mm (depth) x 210mm (width) 64 pages Colour plates throughout – 150 photographs
Limpbound, four-colour matt embossed and UV vanished jacket.
ISBN: 9781869341145
Bar Code: 9781869341145
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NEW ZEALAND
Portrait of a Nation (reprinted)
GRAHAM STEWART
A pictorial parade of New Zealand since European settlement, showing the vast changes; the unbelievable growth of some towns and the demise of others. Over 850 photographs tell the story of the early pioneer spirit that gave the country a solid base which generations have built on to make it a country that is today admired and respected globally.
Illustrated are the times of celebration and tragedy; the engineering feats that tamed the rugged landscape; New Zealanders who conquered the world with courage and others with ingenuity who were trail-blazers in their field of expertise.
To give the reader an instant recognition of the archival pictures featured, colour photographs show the same scene today. The author’s concept has been to create a balanced archive of New Zealand in photographic form.
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An easy guide to correct punctuation
YOUR JOKING
including how to know the difference between your and you’re
Mary Mountier
If you don’t realise the title “Your Joking” is a deliberate mistake... then you’d better read this book. If you do get the point, but have ever slipped up on when to use an apostrophe in other similar words (like it’s and its, or who’s and whose), then this is a must have reference book for you to place alongside your Oxford Concise Dictionary.
Mary Mountier has produced this handy little guide for everyone who still bothers about punctuation and correct English.
It’s written in non-academic language, with easily understood rules for avoiding mistakes. It includes sections on “Confusing words”, which explains when to use “complementary” rather than “complimentary”, or “imply” instead of “infer”, and “Words to avoid”, such as the non-word “agreeance”.
The book is far from pedantic, recognising that language standards are always changing, and in some situations (like texting) don’t matter much, Anyone who wants their writing to be taken seriously needs to follow the rules of English as they are commonly accepted today.
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NAPIER
Portrait of an Art Deco City (reprinted)
Graham Stewart
Readers get an instant insight of the 1931 Napier earthquake and the city in the early years of the 20th century as they turn the pages, all the historic photographs are matched with present day colour scenes from the same spot. It is like being there with the buildings tumbling all around.
This wooden Victorian town was replaced after the 1931 earthquake and fire with the fashionable architecture vogue of the 1930s, the modern American style of the era which is known today as Art Deco. In February each year Napier hosts an Art Deco weekend with wine, food, jazz, dancing, vintage cars, plane rides and a variety of entertainment, showcasing one of the most outstanding collections of Art Deco buildings in the world.
Napier is now a tourist destination for New Zealanders and overseas visitors, a popular port of call for tourist ships. In 1931 the population of the town was just over 16,000, today the population is over 57,000. The country’s oldest winery was established in 1865 at The Mission vineyards at Greenmeadows. Graham Stewart was a photographer with the former Napier daily newspaper the Daily Telegraph from 1959 to 1964.
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