Pedal Power: Great Bicycle Journeys by Roy Sinclair
$15.00 NZD
Category: Adventure & Exploration
In a bold attempt to combat inevitable dotage, Roy Sinclair set off to discover the world (more correctly, selected parts of it) by pedal power. In doing so, frequently accompanied by his Japanese partner, he experienced people of different cultures and languages in a way that might otherwise have been ...Show more
Adventure Cycle Touring Handbook : Worldwide Cycling Route and Planning Guide by Stephen Lord
$15.00 NZD
Category: Adventure & Exploration
Every cyclist dreams of making the Big Trip, the Grand Cycle Tour abroad. The Adventure Cycling Handbook is the comprehensive manual that will make that dream a reality whether it's riding the Karakoram Highway, cycling in Tibet or pedaling from Patagonia to Alaska. So whether cyclists are planning thei ...Show more
The Mountain Skills Training Handbook by Pete Hill
$10.00 NZD
Category: Adventure & Exploration
The book delivers an interactive learning style that enables a broad selection of users to relate to its content, and will become invaluable for both instructors and enthusiasts. The techniques, methods, and tips described and illustrated have derived from the authors' own experiences of delivering qual ...Show more
Trekking - Great Walks of the World by John Cleare
$15.00 NZD
Category: Adventure & Exploration
Vigorously written articles by a variety of authors with lovely photographs and illustrations. Includes well-researched information on the details of making the trips outlined. The US, South America, New Zealand, Nepal, Africa and France are reviewed. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, O ...Show more
No Way Down - Life and Death on K2 by Graham Bowley
$12.00 NZD
Category: Adventure & Exploration
New York Times Bestseller"A refreshingly unadorned account of the true brutality of climbing K2, where heroes emerge and egos are stripped down, and the only thing achieving immortality is the cold ruthless mountain." -- Norman Ollestad, author of Crazy for the StormIn this riveting work of narrative no ...Show more
The Last River - The Tragic Race for Shangri-La by Todd Balf
$14.00 NZD
Category: Adventure & Exploration
It was the ultimate whitewater adventure on the Mount Everest of rivers, and the biggest challenge of their lives....October 1998 an American whitewater paddling team traveled deep into the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet to run the Yarlung Tsangpo, known in paddling circles as the "Everest of rivers." On Day 12 ...Show more
Extreme South by James Castrission
$12.00 NZD
Category: Adventure & Exploration | Reading Level: very good
On 31 October 2011 James Castrission and Justin Jones set out to achieve 'one of the last great polar adventures' - an unsupported return journey from the edge of the Antarctic continent to the South Pole. This is a quest that has been attempted by many experienced polar explorers before them...and all ...Show more
Walking the Amazon: 860 Days. The Impossible Task. The Incredible Journey by Ed Stafford
$12.00 NZD
Category: Adventure & Exploration
A riveting account of one man's history-making journey along the entire length of the Amazon--and through the most bio-diverse habitat on Earth In April 2008, Ed Stafford set off to become the first man ever to walk the entire length of the Amazon. He started on the Pacific coast of Peru, crossed the An ...Show more
To the Poles (Without a Beard) by Catharine Hartley
$15.00 NZD
Category: Adventure & Exploration | Reading Level: very good
The story of an ordinary thirty-something city girl who became the first British woman to walk to the South Pole. 'We called ourselves Plebs to the Pole. It was the first time travellers with no previous polar experience had the chance to attempt such a journey. Before our expedition, Antarctica had bee ...Show more
Heart of the Amazon by Yossi Ghinsberg
$12.00 NZD
Category: Adventure & Exploration
This memoir tells of the author's adventures in South America in the company of three other back-packers. It tells of their harrowing journey through dense undergrowth, their struggles to survive and their eventual separation.
Alone in the Tasman: Tony Allan's True Story of Survival at Sea by Les Hill
$14.00 NZD
Category: Adventure & Exploration
The longest-known survival on the Tasman Sea in a life raft. After competing in the Solo Tasman Yacht Challenge 1974, Christchurch man Tony Allan was sailing back to New Zealand from Mooloolaba when his boat, Rebel II, capsized two days into the journey, leaving him adrift in his life raft for 20 days. ...Show more
No Mercy: True Stories of Disaster, Survival and Brutality by Eleanor Learmonth
$12.00 NZD
Category: Adventure & Exploration
Disaster strikes. A ship goes down, a plane crashes, a party of travellers is cut off. But when the panic and confusion subside and the dead are counted, the survivors must find a way to keep surviving. And in desperation, unconstrained by law or conventional authority, the tactics they resort to can be ...Show more