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The Great Kiwi Bucket List
120 Secret Spots, Hidden Gems and Curious Places
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120 quirky and accessible mini-adventures across the four corners of Aotearoa New Zealand. Not everyone fills their bucket list with leaping out of planes or swimming with sharks. When it comes to bucket lists, everyone has different ideas about what should be on them, so The...
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120 quirky and accessible mini-adventures across the four corners of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Not everyone fills their bucket list with leaping out of planes or swimming with sharks.
When it comes to bucket lists, everyone has different ideas about what should be on them, so The Great Kiwi Bucket List is jam-packed with themed lists of fun, quirky, fascinating, and budget-friendly things to do around our gorgeous country.
From art lovers to star gazers, there's something for everyone among this book's 120 entries. All you have to do is get out there and tick them off as you go!
Chapters are: Introduction; Animal lovers - people who miss their pets while they're on holiday; Art aficionados - New Zealand art lovers; Audiophiles - lovers of great music; Bar flies - people who love a good old-fashioned pub; Bathing beauties - people who love to loll in hot pools; Bibliophiles - lovers of books; Bird nerds - amateur ornithologists; Caeruleaphiles - people who love blue waters; Curiosity connoisseurs - those who love a good quirky museum visit; First-place getters - people who enjoy being in the lead; Industrial fans - people who love a good engineering project; Pharologists - lighthouse enthusiasts; Pontists - people who appreciate a good bridge; Rock stars - fans of geological forms; Sports fanatics - people who eat, drink, sleep, watch and play sport; Stargazers - amateur astronomers; Time travellers - people who don't want to just read about history; Train spotters - railway enthusiasts; Tree huggers - forest fanciers; Wee tipplers - people who enjoy a drink and a bit of a yarn.
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ISBN: 9781775542742
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 27 October 2026
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
Audience: General / adult
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Weight: 0g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Nicola McCloy is a Southlander whose parents instilled in her a love of the great Kiwi road trip. Sandwiched between two extroverted siblings, she grew up spending a lot of time looking out the window of the Datsun 180B and wondering what was happening in the big, wide world of the South Island. Since then, she's made it her mission to find out, with particular focus on the mediums of pies, suspension bridges and transport museums. She has written more than 20 books, all telling different New Zealand stories and including the bestsellers Jump In, Let's Get Lost, Whykickamoocow, Made in New Zealand and The Speight's Southern Man Cookbook.
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