Māori literature: J C Sturm
Back on the website (24.09.22), book by J C Sturm. Long overshadowed by husband James K Baxter, it looks like the general public is becoming more appreciative of Sturm's work.
Read more about her at:
https://www.read-nz.org/writer/sturm-j-c
https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6s1/sturm-jacqueline-cecilia
And here is a poem to sample:
https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/22-02-2019/the-friday-poem-in-loco-parentis-by-jacqui-sturm
Don Merton
Sought after book, this one is signed by Don Merton. Famed for his work bringing back one of our robins from the brink of extinction (there's also a charming childrens book about the robin "Old Blue" you may be interested in), he developed some innovative techniques for fostering eggs. He also did work with kakapo, and overseas in Australia and the Seychelles
Read a bunch more about him at:
https://predatorfreenz.org/stories/remembering-don-merton-old-blue/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/may/03/don-merton-obituary
https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6m13/merton-donald-vincent
Charming book of LIGHTHOUSES
A very attractively illustrated title from 1895, discussing the history of lighthouses.
While this book is not about New Zealand, some further reading about NZ lighthouses here (and have a search on the website for NZ lighthouse specific material):
https://teara.govt.nz/en/map/6652/new-zealand-lighthouses
Corto Maltese
Cult Italian comic artist Hugo Pratt's adventure yarns, don't often see them come by in English. Inspired by Joseph Conrad, Corto Maltese pops in and out of notable events of the early 20th century, often running into literary figures like Ernest Hemmingway, Jack London, etc.
Learn more at:
https://cortomaltese.com/en/
New VAT rules for Imports to EU
Greetings EU friends,
We shall be sending all books DDU: that is, "delivery duty unpaid" — so you may have to pay the VAT to recieve any packages.
All the best,
Hard to Find Books
AFTER MAN, Dougal Dixon
Back on the website! A favourite from Dougal Dixon (Scottish geologist and paleontologist), wherein he imagines the shape of evolution after humankind's demise. A tidy hardcover copy (just a Book Club edition, but will do the job just fine)
Some sample pages here
02.09.22
Rollerderby ZINES
EDIT: sold (02.09.22)
Lots of punk and riot grrrl coverage, interviews, cool ad's, unhinged letters to the editor, comics, BDSM and transgressive stuff, basically all sorts of alternative undergound oddness
NZ$20.00 each
Universal language?
From the 1870's, a little book proposing a means of UNIVERSAL COMMUNICATION...
Basically (see pic's of pages for examples), the most common words are assigned a number. Say, the word "ROCK" is assigned a number, said number staying constant for English, French, Hindi, etc.
Now, if you all have the same wee guide book, you can chat rudimentarily by writing down these numbers
The author adds a bunch of simple other symbols and modifications for conjugation, etc.
But that's not all... if you have these numbers, what if you were to assign sounds to each number? And then, you can reverse-engineer a SPOKEN universal language (!) (if I understand this right...)
Odd indeed
Not much on the internet about this one — see the New York times notice here: https://www.nytimes.com/1874/11/26/archives/new-publications-international-correspondence-by-means-of-numbers.html
... and the World Cat entry:
https://www.worldcat.org/title/international-correspondence-by-means-of-numbers-an-easy-method-whereby-people-of-different-nations-may-readily-communicate-with-each-other-by-charles-stewart/oclc/559603351
Yours for NZ$25.00
