Tigers Of The Snow by Neale Jonathan
$14.00 NZD
Category: Adventure & Exploration
This book tosses history, culture, stories and people into a mixer and brings them out entwined–each connected–permanently forever.The author presents the past objectively yet inspires the reader to look closer, read more and question thoroughly the make up of the sherpa people who are smart, resilient, ...Show more
Tasman Trespasser II: The Shaun Quincey Story by Shaun Quincey
$15.00 NZD
Category: Adventure & Exploration | Reading Level: good
In a nail-biting, funny, poignant and inspiring modern-day adventure, Shaun Quincey shares the physical and mental challenges and utter exhilaration of pitting yourself against something way bigger and way more unforgiving than anything you'll ever face in a life more ordinary. In 1977, Colin Quincey be ...Show more
No Way Down - Life and Death on K2 by Graham Bowley
$10.00 NZD
Category: Adventure & Exploration
THE GRIPPING, TERRIFYING STORY OF A BRUTAL STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL ON THE UPPER SLOPES OF THE HIMALAYAN K2, THE WORLD'S MOST HOSTILE TERRAIN.'Unputdownable. A portrait of extreme courage, folly and loss, leavened by a small dose of survival' Financial Times________________K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climb ...Show more
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod by Gary Paulsen
$15.00 NZD
Category: Adventure & Exploration | Reading Level: very good
Winterdance is an unforgettable account of Gary Paulsen's most ambitious quest: to know a world beyond his knowing, to train for and run the Iditarod. Fueled by an all-consuming passion for running dogs, Paulsen entered the grueling 1,180-mile race across Alaska in dangerous ignorance and with fierce de ...Show more
Everest, Kangshung Face by Stephen Venables
$10.00 NZD
Category: Adventure & Exploration
In May 1988 Stephen Venables pushed on alone to the summit of Everest, following and ascent of the Kangshung (East) Face. He was only the eighth Briton to stand on top of the world's highest mountain, and the first to do so without the use of oxygen supplies. In this book the author shares all of his ex ...Show more
Lydia Bradey: Going Up is Easy by Lydia Bradey
$12.00 NZD
Category: Adventure & Exploration
'As the first woman to climb Everest without oxygen, Lydia made history, but her team abandoned her, betrayed her, and defamed her. Her Everest story is strange and bittersweet, but the inner strength that propelled her up that mountain ultimately helped her rise above petty scandal. Her feat is now rec ...Show more
Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth by Ed Wright
$25.00 NZD
Category: Adventure & Exploration
Features approximately 80 adventurers who gave their lives in the cause of discovery. This book discusses the adventurers chronologically, and the various entries cover their careers up-to and including their final mission. It features maps, portraits, photos and quotations from diaries and letters.
The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin
$10.00 NZD
Category: Adventure & Exploration | Series: Century Travellers Ser.
Could an Irish monk in the sixth century really have sailed all the way across the Atlantic in a small open boat, thus beating Columbus to the New World by almost a thousand years? Relying on the medieval text of St. Brendan, award-winning adventure writer Tim Severin painstakingly researched and built ...Show more