Take the story home
Ebooks on kauri history and the great kauri walks, delivered by email as PDFs. The museum stays free for everyone; every sale helps us gather more about kauri.
The Kauri Story
Giants, gum and timber: the story of New Zealand's greatest tree
The whole story of kauri in one illustrated read: how the tree grows, the giants of Waipoua, kauri in te ao Māori, the gum diggers, the bushmen and their dams, swamp kauri, and the fight against kauri dieback. With historic photos and a timeline.
Gum Diggers of the North
Life on New Zealand's kauri gumfields, 1840 to 1940
The people who dug, scraped and sold kauri gum: Māori and Pākehā families, Dalmatian diggers, gum climbers and storekeepers, and how a buried resin became Auckland's biggest export.
Visiting the Giants
A visitor's guide to seeing kauri in Northland, Auckland and the Coromandel
Where to see great kauri today, how to visit them safely and without spreading kauri dieback, and the history behind each forest. Always checked against DOC track status before you go.
Payments are handled by Stripe. Ebooks are for personal use. Kauri NZ is independent. It is not affiliated with The Kauri Museum, Matakohe, the Department of Conservation or any iwi.
