High-tech Legs on Everest by Mark Inglis
26.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
FINALIST 2009 NZ POST CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD On 15 May 2006, double amputee Mark Inglis fulfilled a childhood ambition - to stand on the top of the highest mountain in the world. High-Tech Legs on Everest tells the stoy of how he got there, and then the equally gripping tale of how he got back down ag ...Show more
Whale Warrior by Peter Bethune
39.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
Controversial, attention-seeking, forthright and driven ...all these words have been used to describe Pete Bethune. What can't be denied, though, is that he is a man who is prepared to fight - quite literally - for his principles; principles which relate not just to the saving of the great whales of the ...Show more
Earthrace: Futuristic Adventures on the High Seas by Peter Bethune
39.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
A unique and inspirational story of a true-life Kiwi adventure. Although the futuristic, biodiesel-powered speedboat Earthrace, failed in its attempt to circumnavigate the world in record time, the story of the attempt is a wonderful modern-day adventure.
Where the Mountains Throw Their Dice: An Insight into the Kiwi Climbing Psyche by Paul Hersey
45.00 NZD
Category: Adventure | Reading Level: very good
There are regular reports in the media of mountaineering fatalities and costly rescues, and to some of us climbing may seem a selfish and crazy game in which victims have only themselves to blame. But to Dunedin climber Paul Hersey climbing is nothing less than a reason for living; even if - or perhaps ...Show more
Blue Water: Salt-encrusted Stories of a Life at Sea by Lindsay Wright
39.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
Blue Water is a collection of true adventure stories from a writer in love with the sea ...From an action-packed journey to the Arctic ice pack, encounters with whales and storms, to rescuing a derelict yacht - only to later be washed ashore on a New Zealand beach - Lindsay Wright has experienced it all ...Show more
Tasman Trespasser II: The Shaun Quincey Story by Shaun Quincey
42.00 NZD
Category: Adventure | 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
Wild Horizons: More Great Hunting Adventures by Greg Caigou
38.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
In his second collection of hunting adventures, Greig Caigou unpacks the classic and memorable elements of New Zealand hunts, blending his own inspiring stories with those of other keen hunters. These adventures span both gender and a range of ages and capture the essence of special regions and memora ...Show more
Castaway: The Diary of Samuel Abraham Clark, Disappointment Island, 1907 (My NZ Story) by Bill O'Brien
16.99 NZD
18.50 (8% off)
Category: Adventure | Series: My story
Sam is 14 when he signs on as a cabin boy aboard a vessel bound for Sydney. The barque Dundonald founders and sinks off Disappointment Island in the southern ocean. Fifteen survivors endure a harsh winter on this remote island until their rescue in late November. 6 March 2007 marks 100 years since the ...Show more
Hellbent for the Pole by Geoffrey Lee Martin
12.99 NZD
29.99 (56% off)
Category: Adventure
Late in 1957 two field parties set off from different sides of the Antarctic continent, both headed towards the South Pole. The intention was for one of those parties to successfully complete a trans-Antarctic crossing. This party was led by Britain's Dr Vivian Fuchs. The second party, led by Edmund Hil ...Show more
Barrow's Boys by Fergus Fleming
30.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
The atlas of 1816 was littered with blanks. Where was the North Pole? Was there a North- West Passage? What lay at the heart of Africa? Did Antarctica exist? In his quest to find the answers to these questions John Barrow, Second Secretary to the Admiralty, launched the most ambitious programme of explo ...Show more
White Water: The world's wildest rivers - now out of print by ADDISON Graeme
44.99 NZD
69.95 (35% off)
Category: Adventure | Series: Top S.
The past few decades have seen whitewater running become a major adventure activity worldwide. New technologies in boating material and a new ethos of adventure travel have made this possible. Here is the extraordinary story of modern whitewater exploration, of the great popular runs and the legendary r ...Show more
Seized!: A Sea Captain's Adventures Battling Pirates and Recovering Stolen Ships in the World's Most Troubled Waters by Max Hardberger
29.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
Hardberger recounts his adventures repossessing ships and sneaking them out of lawless, third-world countries, often under threat of death or imprisonment. His journeys lead him from corrupt ports in the Caribbean to the ice-bound docks of Vladivostok. His adventures in rescuing ships pit him against a ...Show more