Peter Janssen

Visiting New Zealand? Embarking on a road trip? Want to know where to send the visiting rellies? 1001 Best Things To See and Do in New Zealand should be your travel bible. It includes both the obvious places to visit and the not-so-well-known things to see and do. Tourists, nature lovers, history en...

Travelling around New Zealand and looking for a good feed that isn't going to cost you the earth? Feeling peckish and in the mood for something special to the area you find yourself in and not sure where to find it? Want to take a visitor somewhere nice to eat that isn't going to bore you to tears b...

Wild coasts, jaw-dropping cliffs and caves, tranquil bays, thermal hotspots and smoking volcanoes, towering alps and grinding glaciers, primeval forests, lakes and braided rivers, seabird colonies and seal rookeries, offshore islands...New Zealand's natural wonders are top of any tourist's must-see ...

Building on the success of his highly successful North and South Island Short Walks books, inveterate tramper Peter Janssen presents 200 short nature walks in New Zealand that are ideal for those people who like to stretch their legs without having to tackle a full tramp. With the informative 'natur...

As a follow-up to his North Island volume, inveterate tramper Peter Janssen presents more than 250 short walks in the South Island and Stewart Island that are ideal for those people who like to stretch their legs without having to tackle a full tramp. Among others, this includes parents with young f...

Mysterious and awe-inspiring, the mighty and often sacred trees of New Zealand have stood as silent witness to fascinating and memorable moments in our history. This new kind of tree book is not a photographic study or a guide to species of trees but it is a collection of individual portraits of the...

Unbeknown to many tourists (and some Kiwis), New Zealand is a land of quirky collectors, colourful characters and unusual 'backyard' projects. It is also, more commonly known, to have some of the most beautiful 'off-the-beaten-track' scenery in the world. This book lets the reader in on all those un...

Peter Janssen introduces more than 250 North Island short walks with a difference. They are grouped by region, and each can be accomplished within the span of a couple of hours (and some much less), putting them well within the grasp of most people. What's more, all of them have a memorable highligh...

Northland and Greater Auckland offers an incredibly wide range of outdoors experiences for the casual walker. Day Walks of New Zealand: Northland and Greater Auckland offers over 120 of the best short excursions throughout the region, selected by well-known outdoors writers Marios Gavalas and Peter ...

An informative and informal guide to 150 of the most interesting pubs in New Zealand, divided into North and South islands. A companion book to the successful Vineyard Visits, the book has the same design and organization, providing location and pricing guidelines as well as potted histories of the ...

Tired of camping in the rain? Sick of waiting for the summer's evening barbeque? Fed up with sea water warm enough to swim for just two weeks in early March? Still paying for heating in December? Who said Global Warming is a bad thing? And is Global Warming for real? Why are scientists who in the 19...