A River Rules My Life by Mona Anderson

$25.00 NZD

Category: Agriculture | Reading Level: very good

The original and all-time classic of high-country station life in New Zealand Mount Algidus, the author's home, was one of the great high-country sheep stations of Canterbury, New Zealand. It occupied a mountain range between two ice rivers and lay in the very shadow of the Southern Alps. Published with the Mona Anderson estate as a beautiful hard-back, this new edition brings back the isolated world of the Wilberforce, the river that governed Mona's life for 33 years. In the early 1940s Algidus was regarded as some of the wildest, roughest farming land in New Zealand. 'The river was my Rubicon', Mona said. 'I had heard stories about the terrible Wilberforce: so many people had been drowned in it. I tried not to think about the time when I could have to cross it. But the road had come to an end at a corrugated iron shed. Somewhere beyond it I knew we would find the station, Mount Algidus, a green, high-country oasis amid the snow and the tussock...' ...Show more

Awatere: Portrait of a Marlborough Valley by Harry Broad; Jim Tannock (Photographer); Rob Suisted (Photographer); Dave Hansford (Photographer)

$40.00 NZD

Category: Regional | Reading Level: very good

The Awatere is the Marlborough river and valley south of Blenheim. It runs from Molesworth Station in the high country all the way to the sea below the township of Seddon, overlooked by Mt Tapuae-o-Uenuku, the highest peak in the Inland Kaikoura Range. Author Harry Broad¿s interest in this area w as piqued when he was working on his acclaimed and best-selling book Molesworth, and he has followed through with this to produce Awatere. This is a fascinating and extensive collection of stories that document the multi-facetted, changing face of rural New Zealand, and which explores both the people and the landscape of this area. The upper Awatere valley has many well-known, classic high-country stations, such as The Muller, which borders Molesworth. In the lower valley, there are still many conventional pastoral farms, but the huge change has come through the wine industry. Many people do not realise that the Awatere valley is now the second-largest wine sub-region in New Zealand, with three times the production of an area like Central Otago. This mix of farming and wine has given this area its own unique flavour and character, captured both in Harry Broad¿s stories, but also through the stunning images from photographers Jim Tannock, Rob Suisted and Dave Hansford, as well as a range of others. Awatere will be a beautiful and engaging book, a must-read for anyone interested in Marlborough, or rural New Zealand. ...Show more

Tutira The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station by H. Guthrie-Smith

$55.00 NZD

Category: Natural History | Reading Level: good

A Farm on the Wanganui River by Elizabeth Allen

$20.00 NZD

Category: Regional | Reading Level: very good

The Good Logs of Algidus by Mona Anderson

$20.00 NZD

Category: Agriculture | Reading Level: very good

Snow on the Lindis by Bee Dawson; Madge Snow

$20.00 NZD

Category: Agriculture

A station matriarch recounts a life lived on the famous Morven Hills Station. Snow on the Lindis is Madge Snow's story of living at Morven Hills Station on the Lindis Pass. Morven Hills is one of New Zealand's most well-known high-country stations - once an enormous 400,000 acres. The great stone woolsh ed is one of New Zealand's instantly recognisable farm buildings and is one of the largest shearing sheds in the country at a whopping 34 stands. Madge Snow grew up on Malvern Downs, a station once part of the great Morven block, and she later married Max Snow and took over the management of modern-day Morven Hills Station. This is Madge's charming story of domestic station life, how the times have changed, and of fond memories that will never fade. ...Show more

A History of the National Dairy Association of New Zealand 1894-1984 by G. F. Aldridge and C. W. Burnard

$30.00 NZD

Category: Agriculture | Reading Level: very good

Dairying. A Practical Handbook by A. H. R. Amess and H. C. Johnson

$15.00 NZD

Category: Agriculture | Reading Level: very good

The New Zealand Journal of Agriculture Vol. XXV Jult to December 1922

$35.00 NZD

Category: Agriculture | Reading Level: good-very good

The Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture Commerce and Tourists 1914

$30.00 NZD

Category: Agriculture | Reading Level: very good

Pastoral New Zealand: A Descriptive Survey of the Dominion's Farming by Alan Mulgan

$15.00 NZD

Category: Agriculture | Reading Level: very good

History of New Zealand Forestry by Michael Roche

$85.00 NZD

Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good