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This is the guidebook of Te Araroa Trail: The Long Pathway, a continuous trail running from Cape Reinga to Bluff, 35 years in the making, which will officially open in late 2011. The book maps the 3000-kilometre trail in 40-kilometre sections, with maps by leading map maker Roger Smith of Geographx. Author Geoff Chapple is a modern-day visionary who took the concept of a continuous trail running the length of New Zealand and turned it into a reality. Now CEO of the Trust, Chapple complements the maps with a running commentary descr... read more

The Nature of Things is a celebration of the relationship between poetry and the New Zealand landscape. It matches a wide range of poems that in some way evoke or describe our landscape with images from the pre-eminent New Zealand photographer Craig Potton. The poems have been selected and the introduction written by James Brown, one of New Zealand's leading contemporary poets. The Nature of Things includes work from many of the central figures of New Zealand poetry, both historical and contemporary, to create a hugely appealing, a... read more

A facsimile of an illustrated diary written by A.H. Reed for his wife Isabel while he was in the Featherston military camp in 1917.

Experienced surf photographer Craig Levers presents a collection of his 'best images' taken over the last seventeen years.

First published November 2008, Auckland
hardcover
148pp

An account of a 30 year love affair between a pantheon of anglers and possibly New Zealand's finest still water fishery.

The NZ Good Beach Guide: North Island is the first in a two book series covering the entire NZ coastline. It features accurate and up to date reports on over 600 North Island beaches, including details of accommodation, services, clubs and useful websites. Maps and over five hundred photographs are blended to create a book that is equally at home on a coffee table or on the dashboard of a camper.

Nearly 80 short walks around the Hawke’s Bay area are covered in this, the next in Reed’s popular Day Walks series. Walks that feature include many around Northern Maungaharuru, along the Napier-Tutira Highway, in the Puketitiri Reserves, southern and central Hawke’s Bay, Napier and Hastings, the Maratotara Plateau, Kaweka Forest Park and southern Kaweka, and the Makahu... read more

This guide book introduces each park in turn and gives an overview of its natural and human history, along with comprehensive visitor information including access to the parks, when to visit, safety considerations, and contact details for local tour operators and DoC visitor centres.

In this book Pat Barrett, author of Canterbury Foothills and Forests, brings together his extensive tramping and trans-alpine experience, and his skills as a superb photographer, to provide a guide to all the marked walking tracks, huts and recognised tramping routes of the region, many of which have never before been documented in this form.

Bird's Eye Guide : Tramping in New Zealand is a highly innovative new tramping guide, that has been developed around the latest generation of 'bird's eye' computer-generated maps. These completely accurate panoramic overviews are constructed from map data, but because they can recreate a view of the landscape from any angle or height they provide a remarkably readable and clear way of understanding the lie of the land. For trampers, these bird's eye maps offer a superb way of showing a tramping route in three dimensions, which cann... read more

New Zealanders are passionate about their four-wheel drives. These vehicles have developed their own particular status in our culture, the mark of someone who relates to an outdoor life and who savours the freedom of being out beyond the edge of town. And it is a deserved status, as New Zealand offers fantastic opportunities for off-road touring. This book is the record of a four-wheel drive adventure through some of the most spectacular country to be found in the South Island, undertaken by leading photographers Chris Morton and T... read more

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This very comprehensive chart-book and cruising guide is now in its fourth edition and differs from all earlier editions in scope, content and presentation. The book is the new, re-titled edition of the Hauraki Gulf Boating Atlas by the same author.

For the many thousands who have walked or ridden the Otago Central Rail Trail it holds particular, cherished memories. Some impressions will stick for a lifetime: bouncing over bone-rattling bridges, or sailing through sheer-sided canyons of schist. Or simply barrelling along, mile after mile, with the gravel crunching beneath your tyres under endless wide blue skies. In this vivid, beautifully drawn account, author Paul Sorrell and photographer Graham Warman take you on a 150-kilometre journey across the Otago Central Rail Trail, ... read more

The North Island has a spectacular and varied coastline, from the perfect curves of its golden and black-sand beaches to the dog-toothed skyline of its storm-battered headlands, volcanic brows and rocky cliffs. Palm-fringed lagoons, island-studded bays and tranquil tidal flats add to the unique brew that makes the North Island coast such a magnet for walkers. Marios Gavalas has travelled all around the island's coast and selected 41 of his favourite walks. These range from 20-minute strolls to full-day hikes suitable for the fit an... read more

Tramping and bush walking is one of New Zealander's favourite past times and arguably we have one of the best countries in the world to do it in. Colin Moore has walked a great number of these tracks over the last 40 years and along with other Xpert trampers has complied a list of the top tracks available to us. Spot X Tramping New Zealand will be one of the most comprehensive books of it's kind with detailed topographical maps showing full details of these walks. In keeping with the SpotX tradition of offering the very best outdoo... read more