A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
28.99 NZD
Category: Adventure | Reading Level: very good
A classic of travel writing, 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' is Eric Newby's iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth. It was 1956, and Eric Newby was earning an improbable living in the chaotic family business of London haute couture. Pining for ...Show more
Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival by Norman Ollestad
34.99 NZD
39.99 (12% off)
Category: Adventure
Set in the aftermath of a harrowing plane crash, this is the true story of one young boy's fight for survival in nature's most treacherous conditions. Eleven-year-old Norman Ollestad was a gifted skier. After winning the 1979 Southern California Slalom Skiing Championship, his father chartered a small p ...Show more
Raising the Dead: A True Story of Death and Survival by Phillip Finch
34.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
A true story of death and survival in the world's most dangerous sport, cave diving. Two friends plunge 900 ft deep into the water of the Komali Springs in South Africa, to raise the body of a diver who had perished there a decade before. Only one returns. Unquenchable heroism and complex human relation ...Show more
SAS Survival Handbook by John 'Lofty' Wiseman
39.99 NZD
40.99 (2% off)
Category: Adventure
A new and fully updated edition of the original, bestselling survival handbook. Written by ex-SAS survival expert John 'Lofty' Wiseman, this book provides the most reliable, authoritative and respected survival information on the market. The original survival handbook - the choice of both survival exper ...Show more
Raising the Dead by Phillip Finch
29.99 NZD
32.00 (6% off)
Category: Adventure
A true story of death and survival in the world's most dangerous sport, cave diving. Two friends plunge 900 ft deep into a water-filled crater in the Kalahari Desert to raise the body of a diver who had perished there a decade before. Only one returns. Unquenchable heroism and complex human relationship ...Show more
The Perfect Storm: A True Story Of Man Against The Sea by Sebastian Junger
23.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
The 'perfect storm' is a once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high pressure system from the Great Lakes, running into storm winds over an Atlantic island - Sable Island - and colliding with a weather system from the Caribbean: Hurricane Grace. This is the story of that storm, told through the accounts ...Show more
The White Spider : The story of the north face of the Eiger by Heinrich Harrer (tr from German Hugh Merrick; additional chapters by Heinrich Harrer & Kurt Maix)
30.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
A classic of mountaineering literature, this is the story of the harrowing first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the most legendary and terrifying climb in history. Heinrich Harrer, author of 'Seven Years in Tibet' and one of the twentieth century's greatest mountaineers, was part of the team th ...Show more
Under a Sheltering Sky:Journeys into Mountain Heartlands by Colin Monteath
24.99 NZD
79.95 (68% off)
Category: Adventure
Colin Monteath is a Canterbury author with several previous books to his credit - Hall and Ball, Antarctica - Beyond the Southern Ocean. This new book documents 12 of Colin's most recent journeys to polar and mountain heartlands in Tibet, Bhutan, Alaska, Mongolia, Nepal, Greenland, Patagonia, NZ, The Ch ...Show more
In Peril by Skip Strong
32.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
"Strong and Braden's tale of an imperfect storm, three ships, and a daring rescue comes to vivid life in this gem of a book." -Publishers Weekly "A marvelous yarn about an incredible rescue." -The Bangor (ME) Daily News When Skip Strong, a thirty-two-year-old captain of the 688-foot oil tanker Cherry ...Show more
The Forgotten Islands by Michael Veitch
42.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
Bass Strait has over fifty cold, dark islands that are regularly pounded by atrocious weather and hardly visited. These islands are rich in atypical Australian history: sealers, lighthouse keepers, feuds, Aboriginal 'resettlements', deadly encounters with nature and people who have vanished. Michael Vei ...Show more