Tracks by Robyn Davidson
21.99 NZD
Category: Adventure | Series: Anniversary Edition
A revised, reissued fortieth anniversary edition of this prize-winning, bestselling account of one woman's solo journey across 1,700 miles of Australian Outback 'I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.' S ...Show more
My Polar Dream by Jade Hameister
34.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
Fourteen-year-old Jade Hameister had a dream: to complete the Polar Hat Trick. In 2016, she skied to the North Pole. In 2017, she completed the Greenland Crossing. In 2018, she arrived at the South Pole. This is the story of an adventurer who never gave up - who set herself incredible challenges beyond ...Show more
The Girl Who Climbed Everest - Lessons Learned Facing up to the World's Toughest Mountains by Bonita Norris
27.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
'What I've learned from climbing mountains is that we can push ourselves far beyond what we think we are capable of, and it's outside of our comfort zones that the most amazing things happen.' What drives us to go to our limits and beyond? What does it take to make dreams come true over all else? An ...Show more
Alone in the Tasman: Tony Allan's True Story of Survival at Sea by Les Hill
34.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
The longest-known survival on the Tasman Sea in a life raft. After competing in the Solo Tasman Yacht Challenge 1974, Christchurch man Tony Allan was sailing back to New Zealand from Mooloolaba when his boat, Rebel II, capsized two days into the journey, leaving him adrift in his life raft for 20 days. ...Show more
Ascent by Chris Bonington
26.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
BRITAIN'S GREATEST CLIMBER. 'He is the David Attenborough of mountaineering . . . Bonington's most personal memoir yet.' The Times. 'This is a compelling tale of fortitude and endurance.' - The Sunday Times 'He is the icon of British climbing.' The Daily Mirror Sir Chris Bonington memoir Ascent will ...Show more
Endurance by Frank Arthur Worsley
37.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. "What the ice gets," replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's unflappable leader, "the ice keeps." It did not, however, get the ship's twenty-five crew ...Show more
The Climb : Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev
19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
In May 1996 a number of expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route. Each group contained world class climbers and relative novices, some of whom had paid tens of thousands of pounds for the climb. As they neared the summit twenty-three men and women, including the expediti ...Show more
The Crossway by Guy Stagg
37.99 NZD
Category: Adventure | Reading Level: very good
In 2013 Guy Stagg made a pilgrimage from Canterbury to Jerusalem. Though a non-believer, he began the journey after suffering several years of mental illness, hoping the ritual would heal him. For ten months he hiked alone on ancient paths, crossing ten countries and more than 5,500 kilometres. The Cros ...Show more
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon by Jeffrey Kluger
29.99 NZD
Category: Adventure | Reading Level: very good
The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumph. In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts h ...Show more
Adrift by Tami Oldham Ashcraft
22.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
New York Times Bestseller The heart-stopping memoir, soon to be a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin, and directed by Baltasar Kormákur (Everest). "An inspirational and empowering read."--Shailene Woodley Young and in love, their lives ahead of them, Tami Oldham and her fi ...Show more
The Sea Takes No Prisoners: Offshore voyages in an open dinghy by Peter Clutterbuck
32.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
This is a classic real-life story of derring do on the high seas, complete with extreme risk, last-minute ingenuity and many near-misses. Beginning in the 1960s, this book tells of the real life adventures of the author as a boy - a time of boarding schools, long holidays and an unbelievable (to toda ...Show more