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  • The Fishes of New Zealand
    The Fishes of New Zealand

    The Fishes of New Zealand

    The most detailed reference to the fishes of New Zealand ever published – definitive and completely illustrated.

  • Buller’s Birds of New Zealand: The Complete Work of JG Keulemans (New Edition)
    Buller’s Birds of New Zealand: The Complete Work of JG Keulemans (New Edition)

    Buller’s Birds of New Zealand: The Complete Work of JG Keulemans (New Edition)

    New Zealand's best-loved birds come alive in luminous colour in Buller’s Birds of New Zealand: The Complete Work of JG Keulemans.

  • Whales and Dolphins of Aotearoa New Zealand - book cover
    Whales and Dolphins of Aotearoa New Zealand

    Whales and Dolphins of Aotearoa New Zealand

    For centuries whales and dolphins have captured our imaginations. We have revered and mythologised them, hunted them to the brink of extinction and passionately protected them. But how much do we really know?

  • New Zealand Seaweeds: An Illustrated Guide
    New Zealand Seaweeds: An Illustrated Guide

    New Zealand Seaweeds: An Illustrated Guide

    New Zealand Seaweeds is the first photographic identification guide to New Zealand’s unique marine algae, by the country’s pre-eminent seaweed expert Wendy Nelson.

  • The Essential Audrey Eagle: Botanical Art of New Zealand - book cover
    The Essential Audrey Eagle: Botanical Art of New Zealand

    The Essential Audrey Eagle: Botanical Art of New Zealand

    The Essential Audrey Eagle: Botanical Art of New Zealand offers botanists, gardeners, and art lovers Audrey Eagle’s exquisite botanical artworks – in a compact, portable format.

  • Awesome Forces book cover
    Awesome Forces: The Natural Hazards that Threaten New Zealand

    Awesome Forces: The Natural Hazards that Threaten New Zealand

    Massively updated, the new edition of Te Papa Press’s bestselling introduction to New Zealand’s natural hazards and disasters is more relevant than ever.

  • Eagle’s Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand - book cover
    Eagle’s Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand

    Eagle’s Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand

    Every known native New Zealand tree and shrub – in colour and life size. Winner of the Montana Medal for Non-fiction 2007 and winner of the Illustrative section of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2007.