Nic Low

Data theft, internet memes and giant octopi. Nothing is spared in this idiosyncratic collection of short stories. Arms Race & Other Stories by Nic Low looks deep into the fragments of society and finds people who are lost in a landscape of greed and technological confusion. His stories go beyond satire, aiming for the dark heart of our collective obsession...

A riveting blend of nature writing, indigenous storytelling and great adventure in the NZ alps. This book is about walking as a form of knowing. Armed with Ngai Tahu's ancient oral maps and a modern satellite atlas, I crossed the Southern Alps more than a dozen times, trying to understand how our forebears saw the land. What did it mean...