The Cloud Forest by Peter Matthiessen
48.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
Peter Mattiessen has long been known for his travels to some of the remotest lands on earth, most notably recorded in The Snow Leopard. The Cloud Forest brings to vivid life a South American journey that took him from the Sargasso Sea to the jungles of Amazonia, from the Inca city of Machu Picchu high i ...Show more
Ghost Wave: The Discovery of Cortes Bank and the Biggest Wave on Earth by Chris Dixon
39.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
In Ghost Wave, Chris Dixon dives deep into the fascinating history of Cortes Bank and the motley brotherhood of argumentative, damaged, brave and quirky margin walkers who discovered and scaled the tallest mountain in the sea. Along the way, he'll show how these pioneering wave-addicts changed our very ...Show more
The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb by Ed Viesturs & David Roberts
56.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
The bestselling author of No Shortcuts to the Top and K2 chronicles his three attempts to climb the world's tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak, Annapurna in the Himalaya, while exploring the dramatic and tragic history of others who have made - or attempted – the ascent, and what these explo ...Show more
The Camping Manual by Peter Frost
59.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
Increasing numbers of people are discovering that camping is an economical and attractive holiday option. At last, here is a book that will tell you all you need to know about planning the perfect family camping trip. Whether it is a weekend in North Wales or two weeks in the Costa Brava, this attractiv ...Show more
Outdoor Survival Manual: A Step-by-step Guide to Practical Bush Craft and Survival Outdoors by Dave Pearce
59.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
Offers planned and improvised survival skills for a weekend away in the woods, or for the most extreme environments on earth.
Vaka: Saga of a Polynesian Canoe by Tom Davis & Pa Tuterangi Ariki
48.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
1999 A saga of Polynesian voyaging. A fascinating tale of 300 years of voyaging of a single historic canoe by the author's forebears as told in their traditions. Illustrated in black and white.
In Shackleton's Footsteps by Henry Worsley
39.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
A Return to the Heart of the Antarctic.
The Third Man Factor: The Secret to Survival in Extreme Conditions by John Geiger
30.00 NZD
31.00 (3% off)
Category: Adventure
From Sir Ernest Shackleton on South Georgia Island to currency trader Ron DiFrancesco in the South Tower of the World Trade Center, hundreds of people in life-threatening situations have shared an experience that an unseen being - known as the Third Man - helped them survive apparently insurmountable od ...Show more
The Fat Paddler by Sean Smith
40.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
Horrific car accidents, the Bali bombing, too many sausages...Sean Smith survived them all. This is one man's story of his journey back to health and fitness and recapturing his passion for life. As a hard-playing, hard-living rugby forward, Sean Smith was used to putting his body on the line. However, ...Show more
Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea by Frank Delaney
38.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
In late December 1951, laden with passengers and nearly forty metric tons of cargo, the freighter SS Flying Enterprise steamed westward from Europe toward America. A few days into the voyage, she hit the eye of a ferocious storm. Force 12 winds tossed men about like playthings and turned drops of freezi ...Show more
The Lonely Sea by Yvette Allum
29.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
This is the extraordinary true adventure story of how Sue Dockar survived for two days and two nights lost alone at sea after being swept away during a spearfishing contest in the shark-infested waters off the Queensland coast. The Lonely Sea shows how a series of small and individually avoidable errors ...Show more
Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
29.99 NZD
Category: Adventure | Series: Stanford Travel Classics
When a ship under his command was wrecked on the coast of Brazil in 1887, it seemed that his maritime career had ended in disgrace. Not one for retiring to earthy pastures, Slocum rebuilt a hundred-year old sloop and set off from Boston in 1895 on the first single-handed circumnavigation of the globe. F ...Show more