Robin V. F. Smith Books

The country's longest-standing scenic book, 'A Portrait of New Zealand' depicts the landscapes of the North and South Islands in over 200 photographs. The book was first published in 1982 in two separate volumes, with the combined edition published in 1988 and reprinted every year since. This new edition contains the same well-loved images but has been given new colour reproduction throughout in order to restore teh spectacular quality of the original photographs. Errol Brathwaite's original text has been revised and rewritten by the mulit-award winning journalist and writer Jill Worrall.

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Robin Smith was one of England's most popular cricketers of the 1990s. Smith suffered a debilitating loss of identity, especially when he retired from professional cricket in 2003, and struggled to deal with the contradictions in his personality.

Few New Zealanders live out of sight of snow-capped ranges, or beyond the easy reach of vast lakes, swift clean rivers and bush fringed beaches. Such things are the commonplace of life in New Zealand.Two of New Zealand's leading photographers have travelled the length and breadth of the land to record the unspoiled beauty of a country which bears few of the scars of Man's encroachment. They have captured in brilliant colour the very essence of New Zealand, the lushness of the pastures, the grandeur of the mountains, the softness of the rainforest, the very crispness of the air.Rugged mountains, graceful lakes and snow-fed rivers * Bays, harbours, cliffs and coves * Cities in search of the best of two worlds * The wilderness tamed * Nature's cauldron - a geothermal wonderland

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