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Llama DramaA Two-woman, 5,500-mile Cycling Adventure Through South America by Anna McNuff
$28.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
Why take the shortest, most direct route through life, when you could choose the wiggliest, most mountainous one possible?Armed with a limited grasp of Spanish and determined to meet as many llamas as possible, Anna and her friend Faye set off on a 6-month journey along the spine of the largest mountain ...Show more
Grab Ya Boots! We're Going A-Hunting by Marion Day; Jason Day
$25.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
Marion teams up with her hunting-mad son, Jason, and young Kiwi hunters to present an exciting collection of sporting and adventure stories, poems and 'a million things hunters should know'. Grab ya Boots will suit any intermediate child who loves the outdoors and loves adventure but who doesn't like to ...Show more
On The Trail of Genghis Khan by Tim Cope
$25.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
Lone-adventurer Tim Cope travelled the entire length of the Eurasian steppe on horseback, from the ancient capital of Mongolia to the Danube River in Hungary. This formidable 6,000-mile journey took three years to complete. It is a journey that has not been completed successfully since the days of Gengh ...Show more
The Pants of Perspective by Anna McNuff
$28.00 NZD
Category: Sports
Anna is an endurance athlete, adventurer and mischief maker. Once upon a time she represented Great Britain at rowing, but after ‘retiring’ in her mid twenties, she began darting around the world on the hunt for new and exciting endurance challenges. Named by The Guardian as one of the top female advent ...Show more
The Rings of Saturn - Vintage Voyages by W.g. Sebald; Michael Hulse (Translator)
$24.00 NZD
Category: Adventure | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind What begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great, constellated story of people and cultures past and present- of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of ...Show more
The Third Day, the Frost (Tomorrow Series #3 ) by John Marsden
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Tomorrow Series
Book 3 of the Tomorrow, When the War Began series.
The Other Side of Dawn (The Tomorrow Series #7) by John Marsden
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The tomorrow series
The Other Side of Dawn is the long-awaited, riveting, final title in the Tomorrow series about a group of teenagers in war-torn Australia. Since their home was invaded by enemy soldiers and transformed into a war zone, Ellie and her friends have been fighting for their lives. They have learned survival ...Show more
Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica by Sara Wheeler
$28.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
After writing two highly praised travel books, Sara Wheeler was invited by the American government to be the 1994 'Writer in Residence at the US South Pole Station'. She spent six weeks at the pole and on the edge of the infamous Ross Ice Shelf which finally defeated Fiennes and Stroud in their recent u ...Show more
New Zealand White Water: 180 Great Kayak Runs by Graham Charles
$35.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
New Zealand is a whitewater paradise. Known the world over for its great variety of challenging adventure runs in pristine wilderness, it offers fantastic scope for beginners and experts alike. In this fully revised and expanded fifth edition of New Zealand Whitewater, Graham Charles presents informatio ...Show more
I Saw a Strange Land by Arthur Groom
$18.00 NZD
Category: Adventure | Series: Text Classics
While living in Central Australia Arthur Groom fell under the spell of our harsh and fascinating country, captivated by its limitless distances and unbelievable colour. Hermannsburg, the home of artist Albert Namatjira and of other well-known painters, became Groom's headquarters, and from there he made ...Show more
Touching the Void (Vintage Voyages) by Joe Simpson
$24.00 NZD
Category: Adventure | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995. A few da ...Show more
Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed; James Roxburgh (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
Selected to be read on Radio Four's Book of the Week. 'One of the best books I've read in the last five or ten years... Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written, and I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long ...Show more
