Other Side of the Ice: One Family's Treacherous Journey Negotiating the Northwest Passage by Sprague Theobold
39.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
Sprague Theobald, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and expert sailor with over 40,000 offshore miles under his belt, always considered the Northwest Passage - the sea route connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific - the ultimate uncharted territory. After Roald Amundsen completed the first successfu ...Show more
Amazing Diving Stories by John Bantin
32.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
This hardback collection of thrilling stories makes for compelling reading for all divers. There's everything from classic tales of wreck discoveries to encounters with beautiful and bizarre creatures beneath the waves. There are stories of death and disaster as well as bravery and triumph. A select ...Show more
Shackleton's Whisky - A Spirit of Discovery by Neville Peat
39.99 NZD
Category: Adventure | Reading Level: Very Good
A vivid account of Ernest Shackleton's 1907 Antarctic Expedition, and the cases of Mackinlay's single malt whisky that he left behind. The incredible tale of Antarctica, malt whisky and an epic journey. Sir Ernest Shackleton's world fame is founded on the Endurance expedition of 1914-17, an attempt to c ...Show more
Extreme South by James Castrission
39.99 NZD
Category: Adventure | 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
Outdoors with Geoff by Geoff Thomas
40.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
'When a fish plagues one's dreams and fills every waking thought . . . it becomes more than just a fish.' Geoff Thomas is synonymous with New Zealand's outdoors and one of the most well-known fishermen in the country. For years we have watched his escapades on his popular TV show, Outdoors with Geoff – ...Show more
Pole to Pole by Pat Farmer
39.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
In a feat that ranks with the brave and inspiring deeds of Scott of the Antarctic, Sir Edmund Hillary and Jessica Watson, famed Australian ultramarathon runner Pat Farmer did what no human has ever done: run from the North Pole to South Pole. His mission: to raise money for the Red Cross to fund water p ...Show more
Swirly World Sails South by Andrew Fagan
37.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
In 2007, Kiwi musician and radio personality Andrew Fagan set sail in his 5.4 metre plywood yacht, Swirly World, to circumnavigate New Zealand. And just to make it more difficult, the outspoken Fagan included a leg to the sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands in the notorious Southern Ocean. All in all he sail ...Show more
Survival Tagalog: How to Communicate without Fuss or Fear - Instantly! by Joi Barrios
13.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
This clear, to-the-point phrase book provides you with the most important everyday Tagalog/Filipino words and phrases to get you speaking without fuss or fear. It's current: unlike the other books out there, "Survival Tagalog" offers the most up-to-date ways to say it! It carefully organizes the key in ...Show more
In Shackleton's Footsteps: A Return to the Heart of the Antarctic by Henry Worsley
29.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
On the 29th of October 1908, a party of four men, led by Ernest Shackleton, set out to be the first to reach the South Pole. Three months later, their mission was in ruins and they faced certain death if they carried on. Just 97 miles from the South Pole, Shackleton turned back. One hundred years on, i ...Show more
The Cruelist Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic by Geoffrey Salisbury
26.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
In 1925, a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through icebound Nome, Alaska. The life-saving serum was a thousand miles away, and a blizzard was brewing. Airplanes could not fly in such conditions: only the dogs could do it. Racing against death, twenty dog teams relayed the serum across the Alaskan wilde ...Show more
The Mammoth Book of Antarctic Journeys: 32 Eye-witness Accounts of Adventure in the Antarctic by Jon E. Lewis (Editor)
22.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
This is the very best writing on the Antarctic, from James Cook's eighteenth-century assertion that 'no man will ever venture further than I have done' to Lynne Cox's description of her epic, icy swim in the twenty-first century - 32 first-hand accounts of men and women challenging one of the Earth's la ...Show more
Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen by Peter FitzSimons
65.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December, 1911, he led an expedition from Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a human foot. After setting up Main Base at Cape Denision an ...Show more