Forever on the Mountain by J.M. Tabor
55.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
In July 1967, seven young men--members of Joe Wilcox's twelve-man expedition--died on Mt. McKinley, North America's highest peak. Ten days passed with no rescue attempt, while more than half an expedition was stranded and dying at 20,000 feet during a vicious Arctic storm. The bodies were never recover ...Show more
Stranger in the Forest by Eric Hansen
29.99 NZD
39.95 (24% off)
Category: Adventure | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
Eric Hansen was the first westerner ever to walk across the island of Borneo. Completely cut off from the outside world for seven months, he traveled nearly 1,500 miles with small bands of nomadic hunters known as Penan. Beneath the rain forest canopy, they trekked through a hauntingly beautiful jungle ...Show more
Ray Mears Vanishing World by Raymond Mears
77.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
Ray Mears has travelled the world for much of his life learning and teaching wilderness skills. Now hereflects on his experiences in some of the most remote and beautiful places on Earth alongwithhis own stunning photographs of the landscapes and peoples he's encountered.Fascinated by photography from a ...Show more
Race to the Pole by Meredith Hooper
19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
Until the early years of the 20th century, the vast continent of Antarctica was barely discovered. All that changed, when Scott, Shackleton, and Amundsen set out to solve the last great unsolved geographical mystery and find the South Pole. This book tells the amazing tale of their expeditions into the ...Show more
Call of the Wild : My escape to Alaska by Guy Grieve
29.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
Guy Grieve's life was going nowhere - trapped in a job he hated, commuting 2,000 miles a month and up to his neck in debt. But he dreamed of escaping it all to live alone in one of the wildest, most remote places on earth - Alaska. And just when he'd given up hope, the dream came true. Suddenly Guy was ...Show more
Bushcraft Survival by Ray Mears
49.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
In BUSHCRAFT SURVIVAL Ray Mears travels to some of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses in the world, and experiences first hand the survival techniques of different indigenous cultures.From the Hudson Bay in Canada, via Tanzania and the jungles of Venezuela, to the moors and highlands of Britain, ...Show more
Swimming with Crocodiles : An Australian Adventure by Will Chaffey
27.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
Will Chaffey was 18 when he boarded a plane in New York bound for Australia. Though he had recently graduated from one of Boston's most prestigious private schools, a disastrous senior year meant that he hadn't been accepted into college. Instead, he took what the college counsellors grimly called 'time ...Show more
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
27.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
By examining the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, internationally bestselling author Jon Krakauer explores the obsession which leads some people to explore the outer limi ...Show more
Giant Steps by Karl Bushby
37.00 NZD
39.99 (7% off)
Category: Adventure
In Punta Arenas, Chile, in November 1998, Karl Bushby set out on one of the most remarkable journeys of modern times. His plan is as simple as it is extraordinary: to walk up the Americas, across the Bering Straits, through Asia, Russia and Europe, back through the Channel Tunnel and returning to Britai ...Show more
Coming Back Alive by Spike Walker
32.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
On the night of January 31 1998, the fishing vessel La Conte took on water and sank off the coast of Sitka, Alaska, in what was to be the worst storm in the state's history. Abandoning ship, the five-man crew desperately clung to life - and each other - in ferocious 90 foot seas, and freezing water. All ...Show more
Working On The Edge by Spike Walker
29.99 NZD
45.00 (33% off)
Category: Adventure
Surviving in the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High SeasNo profession pits man against nature more brutally than king crab fishing in the frigid, unpredictable waters of the Bering Sea. The yearly death toll is staggering (forty-two men in 1988 alone); the conditions a ...Show more