Artists in Antarctica by Patrick Shepherd (editor)
$80.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
What transformation happens when writers, musicians and artists stand in the vast, cold spaces of Antarctica? This book brings together paintings, photographs, texts and musical scores by Aotearoa New Zealand artists who have been to the ice. It explores the impact of this experience on their art and ar ...Show more
Epic: Adventures Across Aotearoa (HB) by Ray Salisbury
$50.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
New Zealand is a country synonymous with epic adventure. Over the years, countless sea kayakers, climbers and alpine trampers have attempted journeys across its stunning landscape, and many more dream of following in their tracks. In Epic, the stories of a dozen memorable Kiwi explorers are brought toge ...Show more
Wild : A Journey from Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed
$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
Adventures with Emilie: Taking on Te Araroa trail in 138 life-changing days by Victoria Bruce
$40.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
"I'm here because I want to test the very limits of my own resilience and reassure myself that no matter what's happened to me, I'm not ready to lie down and die." In 2021, Victoria Bruce quit her corporate job, packed up her life and embarked on Te Araroa trail with her seven-year-old daughter, Emilie ...Show more
Wavewalker by Suzanne Heywood
$38.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with little formal schooling. No one else knew where they were most of the time an ...Show more
Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End by Darrel Bristow-Bovey
$40.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
'Beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn' - CLAIRE ROBERTSON, AUTHOR OF THE SPIRAL HOUSE 'Tender, heartfelt and lyrical' - PETINA GAPPAH, AUTHOR OF OUT OF DARKNESS, SHINING LIGHT Since the discovery of the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance on the bed of the Antarctic ocean, the ...Show more
Mountains Of The Mind: A History Of A Fascination by Robert Macfarlane
$28.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
'The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride. ...Show more
Trial of Strength - Adventures and Misadventures on the Wild and Remote Subantarctic Islands by Shona Riddell; Cara King (Illustrator)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
The world's subantarctic islands circle the lower part of the globe below New Zealand, Australia, Africa and South America in the 'Roaring Forties' and 'Furious Fifties' latitudes. They are filled with unique plants and wildlife, constantly buffeted by lashing rain and furious gales, and surrounded by a ...Show more
Dreamtime voyage : around Australia kayak odyssey 25th anniversary edition by CAFFYN PAUL
$36.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
Th e Dreamtime Voyage is Paul Caff yn’s story of one of the most remarkable journeys ever undertaken by kayak - the fi rst kayak circumnavigation of Australia - a 9,420 mile 360 day epic. It is an inspirational tale of one man’s dogged determination to fulfi ll his impossible dream against all odds, inc ...Show more
Obscured by waves: South Island kayak odyssey by Paul Caffyn
$36.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
Narrative of the first kayak circumnavigation of NZ's South Island in 1978. First half describes the trip around Fiordland, with descriptions of the crayfisherman, lighthouse keepers and the fiords. Second half - Paul's solo journey around the South Island to Te Waewae Bay, highlighted by encounters wit ...Show more
Dark Side of the Wave - Stewart Island Rakiura Kayak Odyssey by Paul Caffyn
$36.00 NZD
Category: Adventure