David Bateman Ltd: 25 books
Wild South
Hunting & Fly Fishing the Southern Hemisphere
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Wild South is an epic journey across the best fly fishing and hunting to be found in New Zealand, Africa, Australia, South America and more. From trout to birds to big game, it's all here - from stalking deep forest for elusive stags and wild boar; waterfowl and upland birds over gun dogs; encounters...
by Gordon McLauchlan
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
In 1976, journalist Gordon McLauchlan wrote his most famous work, The Passionless People a best-selling social commentary on New Zealand, where he probed the murky recesses of our national pscyhe. In The Passionless People Revisited he looks back at how New Zealanders have changed, or otherwise, over...
Coal
The Rise and Fall of King Coal in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
From hero to zero, coal has taken New Zealand on a rollercoaster ride since its glory days as the hero fuel of colonial-age New Zealand.Coal was the fuel on which the colony grew the stuff that made possible the heating, cooking and lighting essential to family life, a lifestyle exalted during two World...
Kindness and Lies
Relationships that make a life
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Following in the footsteps of her hilarious account of living in India (Travels with my Economist, 2012), Lisa turns her attention closer to home, scrutinising and reflecting on the myriad relationships that make up our lives. She probes fraught, often muddled family and extended family situations; consults...
Numerology
A Simple Guide to Understanding Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Numerology is an easy and simple system of numbers that can show in a practical way who we are and what we are here to do. Pythagoras, generally recognized as the founder of modern-day Numerology, believed that if you can understand yourself, you will be able to better understand others and the world...
New Zealand Writer's Handbook
An indispensable guide to getting published
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
This comprehensive, fully updated handbook which should be part of every New Zealand writers toolkit. First published in 1990, this highly successful handbook is now in its sixth edition. Considered by many to be the classic guide for writers, it has been revised and updated to bring it right up to the...
Living in a Warmer World
How a changing climate will affect our lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2014
Readable, relevant and fascinating, in Living in a Warmer World Dr Jim Salinger brings together some of the worlds leading scientists to describe how a hotter planet is affecting our food supplies, fisheries and agriculture, access to fresh water and public health. From these specifics, a clearer picture...
by Andy Macleod
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
All you need to know to master the art of surfcasting in New Zealand. Getting a fish on your line is a thrilling experience so give yourself more than a fighting chance with this accessible guide. Even if you already have surfcasting skills and experience under your belt, you will find this book useful...
Trackers
How technology is helping us monitor and improve our health
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Self-tracking is the practice of measuring and monitoring your health, activities or diet through technologies such as smartphone apps, wearables and personal genomics, empowering you to take control of your day to day health. Richard MacManus explains the benefits and risks of self-tracking and looks...
by Robert Mads Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
In the spring of 1928, two men in a single-engine plane took off from the northernmost point in America - Barrow, Alaska. Flying for over 20 hours across the Arctic, they completed a journey to Spitsbergen, Norway, described by their contemporaries Byrd and Amunsden as 'the most remarkable journey ever...
The New Zealand Grand Slam of Fishing
One man and the ultimate top ten game-fish challenge
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Alain Jorion is the first New Zealander to have captured the ‘grand slam’ of game fishing, comprising a top-class specimen of each of the big game fish - the billfish slam of black marlin, blue marlin, striped marlin, shortbilled spearfish and broadbill swordfish, and the tuna species (bluefin,...
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