HauNui Press, 2012. Previous owner's name in pen at top of front endpaper. Very slight buckle mark at top of spine, otherwise good secondhand condition.

Join David and Bettina on their journey through this often under-appreciated, green, in-between wedge of the North Island; hauntingly plain, scattered with windswept light and ringed by rumpled ranges, wide waters and arching coastlines.

Stunning images rendered from the air are grounded against those taken via car – each shot no more than a few metres from the roadside.

A refreshing story of life lived between two rivers this is a visual treasure, one that rouses the reader to look beyond the everyday and the commonplace, and revel in the true spirit of this little slice of Aotearoa.