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  • Beak of the Moon

    by Philip Temple ...
    Beak of the Moon  is unique in New Zealand literature, a celebratory parable of the natural world and, like George Orwell’s Animal Farm, a political allegory that has never been more relevant than today. ... Read more

    $4.97 USD

  • The Mantis

    A mountaineering novel

    by Philip Temple ...
    It is not the courage to go back up that we need. It's the courage to go down. Just to go on … ' In 1977 a British expedition led by Himalayan veteran Geoff Strickland, summiteer of K2 and Everest among others, set off to attempt the first ascent of unclimbed Puthemojar - the 'Mantis' - in the Karakoram. 25,311 feet high, renowned for its difficulty, and with a fearsome reputation, the Mantis had ... Read more

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  • A Sort of Conscience

    The Wakefields

    by Philip Temple ...
    This in-depth portrait of the Wakefield family, who played such a major role in British overseas settlement in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand in the 19th century, is written with a novelistic flavor, using personal letters and journals to bring to life this group of talented but morally complex individuals whose exploits spanned the globe, and who remain an indelible part of British colonial ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Manifesto Aotearoa

    101 Political Poems

    Edited by Emma Neale, Philip Temple ...
    A poem is a vote. It chooses freedom of imagination, freedom of critical thought, freedom of speech. A collection of political poems in its very essence argues for the power of the democratic voice. Here New Zealand poets from diverse cultures, young and old, new and seasoned, from the Bay of Islands to Bluff, rally for justice on everything from a degraded environment to systemically embedded ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mostly Mischief

    Including the first ascent of a mountain to start below sea level

    by H.W. Tilman, Philip Temple ...
    Series Book 8 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'However many times it has been done, the act of casting off the warps and letting go one's last hold of the shore at the start of a voyage has about it something solemn and irrevocable, like marriage, for better or for worse.'Mostly Mischief's ordinary title belies four more extraordinary voyages made by H.W. 'Bill' Tilman covering almost 25,000 miles in both Arctic and Antarctic... ... Read more

    $4.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • MiSTORY

    by Philip Temple ...
    NEW ZEALAND'S FIRST MAJOR CLIFI NOVEL BY AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR PHILIP TEMPLEElliott from Generation Zero says, 'I've barely slept. I've been up until early hours of the morning all week. I've been surviving on coffee with bloodshot eyes. I've been obsessed. The reason? I've been reading MiSTORY'.SO - Is this what our future looks like?The surveillance society, climate change, global financial ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • I Am Always With You

    by Philip Temple ...
    Based on real events in Germany, this vividly told and deeply moving novel tells of one woman's love for a fellow artist, her struggle to survive the war and her desperation to keep alive the spirit of creativity. Most novels about the Nazi period portray Germans as the perpetrators of war and genocide. This work provides an authentic insight into how ordinary Germans - distinguished only by their ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Chance Is A Fine Thing

    50 Years In New Zealand

    by Philip Temple ...
    A compelling and thoughtful memoir about a significant figure on New Zealand's literary - and natural - landscape. 'The stories that I think worth telling are of how, as a young man, I left home on the other side of the world half a century ago and took the chance to become a New Zealander. More, of becoming a New Zealand writer now able to look back over 50 years and relate not only what happened ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • White Shadows

    Memories of Marienbad

    by Philip Temple ...
    Mysterious and evocative, tantalising and erotic, this unique novel explores the qualities of love and obsession. Marienbad, the central European spa resort, is immortalised in the romantic imagination for its legendary doomed love affairs - Goethe and Ulrike von Levetzow, Chopin and Marie Wodzinska, Edward VII and Mizzi Pistl, Franz Kafka and Felice Bauer. In a Marienbad winter, within its ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

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  • Snow on the Equator

    Mount Kenya, Kilimanjaro and the great African odyssey

    by H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Book 1 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'To those who went to the War straight from school and survived it, the problem of what to do afterwards was peculiarly difficult.'For H.W. 'Bill' Tilman, the solution lay in Africa: in gold prospecting, mountaineering and a 3,000-mile bicycle ride across the continent. Tilman was one of the greatest adventurers of his time, a pioneering climber and sailor who held exploration above all else. He ... Read more

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  • Two Mountains and a River

    I made a resolve not to begin climbing until assured by a plague of flies that summer had really come

    by H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Book 9 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    H.W. Tilman's Two Mountains and a River picks up where Mount Everest 1938 left off. In this instalment of adventures, Tilman and two Swiss mountaineers set off for the Gilgit region of the Himalaya with the formidable objective of an attempt on the giant Rakaposhi (25,550 feet). However, this project was not to be fulfilled.Not one to be dispirited, Tilman and his various accompli... ... Read more

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  • Mischief goes South

    Every herring should hang by its own tail

    by H.W. Tilman, Janet Verasanso ...
    Series Book 10 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'No sea voyage can be dull for a man who has an eye for the ever-changing sea and sky, the waves, the wind and the way of a ship upon the water.'So observes H.W. 'Bill' Tilman in this account of two lengthy voyages in which dull intervals were few and far between.In 1966, after a succession of eventful and successful voyages in the high latitudes of the Arctic, Tilman and his pilot cutter Mischief ... Read more

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