Exisle’s reputation for excellence in history publishing means that most of our history titles sell in international editions. Keep an eye on what’s coming up – we are constantly looking for exciting new books to add to the list.
The 16 Square Riggers of Australia and New Zealand This beautifully photographed book enables the reader to step back in time, to a world when tall ships were the means by which continents were discovered, trade routes were opened up and new worlds were colonised.
For Mariners in Distant Seas
In this book John Dunmore has compiled the kind of exotic recipe book Elizabeth Cook herself might have written. It includes such delicacies as stewed albatross, turtle soup and roasted goat, as well as favourites to welcome the mariner home: oyster loaves, jugged pigeons, fried celery and Poor Knights Pudding.
The extraordinary story of New Zealand’s national anthems
‘God Defend New Zealand’ is our national anthem but seems to have a remarkable capacity to create ‘strife and war’ rather than ‘bonds of love’. So why is this controversial song our national anthem? The story is a curious one.
Shipwrecked in the sub-Antarctic: A great-granddaughter’s pilgrimage
This is the story of Robert Holding, a young English adventurer who was only 23 when he was shipwrecked with 19 others on the Auckland Islands in the sub-Antarctic Ocean in 1864. A year later he was rescued, along with only two of his shipmates. The others had perished from starvation and exposure.