New Zealand is a golf-lover's paradise and this is the definitive guide to the country's most interesting, beautiful, challenging and exhilarating golf holes - the ones that will linger in your memory long after the games are over and the scores forgotten.

This striking book, with full colour photographs and contact details for every featured course, is the perfect golfer's gift. It includes fabulous holes at Cape Kidnappers, declared by the UK Telegraph in 2008 to be No 1 of the 'World's Top Ten Golf Courses'.

A bike ride that began with 26 friends in 1977 is today New Zealand's premier cycling event. Covering a scenic course on 160 kilometres of sealed road around beautiful Lake Taupo, it caters for riders of all abilities, and attracts around 12,000 entrants, with numbers increasing every year. In 2007 it was named one of the best rides in the world by the International Cycling Union.

Whether you're riding for fun or competitively, this book contains all the information you'll need to prepare for the event and have a great ride on the day.

"An excellent publication, perfectly written for novices and experts alike. This guide will be useful not just for the Taupo ride, but for any medium- to long-distance road race."
JONATHAN KENNETT, author of RIDE: The Story of Cycling in New Zealand

At the age of 23, Edinburgh-born James Hector struck out for the wilds of southwest Canada on the daring Palliser expedition, was nearly buried alive at Kicking Horse Pass, and returned to Britain a hero. In 1862, at the age of 28, he sailed to New Zealand to take up a job as Otago provincial geologist. In less than eight years he founded all New Zealand's major scientific institutions, which survive to this day - the Colonial Museum (now Te Papa), the NZ Institute (now the Royal Society) and the NZ Geological Survey (now GNS Science).

In this superb collection of essays, scientists, historians and Hector's descendants tell the remarkable story of James Hector's life and work.

"Enthralling story of an unsung hero"
- TV3 News

WINNER, MONTANA NEW ZEALAND BOOK
AWARD FOR CONTEMPORARY CULTURE

A special new hardback collector's edition of this enduring book.
o Beautiful new design by Sarah Maxey
o Striking jacket and case binding
o French folds
o 24-page colour section

BEST ART BOOK OF THE YEAR - New Zealand Listener and The Press

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR -
The Dominion Post

For a decade Steve Braunias's articles and columns have captivated, amused and enraged readers of first the Listener and then The Sunday Star-Times. His blend of opinion, wit and personal revelation has made him one of New Zealand's most talked-about writers, and he has won more awards than almost any other journalist. This book is his personal selection of columns from the past two years.