Out of Thin Air - Running Wisdom and Magic from above the Clouds in Ethiopia by Michael Crawley
$23.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2021 'Inspiring'The Guardian'Excellent'Runner's World 'Fascinating'Publishers Weekly 'Brilliant'Ed Vaizey'Through reading this book you will come to understand that the heart and soul of running are to be found in Ethiopia.' Haile Gebrselassie 'Engag ...Show more
Hunting Life: Moments Of Truth by Peter Ryan
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
Intrepid hunter, adventurer and writer Peter Ryan has produced yet another deeply satisfying collection of hunting tales, complemented by sensational imagery. His new collection Hunting Life - Moments of Truth delivers superbly written essays on hunting, the natural world and life in general from an a ...Show more
Gone Bush: A Life in the Backcountry and Beyond by Paul Kilgour
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors | Reading Level: very good
An inspiring story of a wanderer, long-distance tramper and hut-bagging legend. Paul Kilgour was bitten by the tramping bug early. He began going on epic trips as a young boy, beyond the farm and along the coast. During these wanderings, he met old folk living simply in tiny huts out the back of farms a ...Show more
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest (Maurice Wilson) by Ed Caesar
$26.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
The untold story of Britain's most mysterious mountaineering legend - Maurice Wilson - and his heroic attempt to climb Everest. Alone.In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Everest, a little-known World War I veteran conceived his own crazy, beautiful plan. He wo ...Show more
Mountains and Desire - Climbing vs. the End of the World by Margret Grebowicz
$30.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
On the 100th anniversary of the first attempt to climb Mt Everest, Margret Grebowicz shows how and why climbing and mountaineering are still important today.In 1923, a reporter asked George Mallory why he wanted to summit Mount Everest. "Because it's there". Today the question "why do this?" is include ...Show more
Where There's a Will - Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent by Emily Chappell
$25.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
A London cycle courier with a taste for adventure, Emily Chappell entered an extraordinary new race - The Transcontinental - in which riders must find their own way, entirely unassisted, across Europe in the shortest time possible. On her second attempt, she won the women's event, covering nearly 4,000 ...Show more
The World Beneath Their Feet by Scott Ellsworth
$28.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
Longlisted for the 2020 William Hill Sports Book of the Year 'A gripping history' THE ECONOMIST'The World Beneath Their Feet contains plenty of rollicking stories' THE TIMES'Gripping' THE SUNDAY TIMES'So far as adventure stories go, this book is tops.' Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump'[Ellswort ...Show more
Go Fast Or Go Home: The Garth Hogan Story by Tim Hanna
$50.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
This is the story of motor racing legend Garth Hogan and his quest for speed on the ground and in the air. Garth Hogan is a man who has been extraordinarily successful in his life. He is a big man with a quiet demeanour that borders on shyness. But that quietness masks a fiercely dedicated and competiti ...Show more
Hooked for Life - A Celebration of Fly Fishing by Les Hill
$45.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors | Reading Level: near fine
Based on Les Hill’s 63 years of fly fishing in New Zealand, HOOKED FOR LIFE is packed with interesting, amusing and informative anecdotes. The book resonates with the sheer joy of hunting and catching trout, while imparting a lifetime’s worth of invaluable lessons on how to go about it. The reader will ...Show more
Sir Bob Charles - The Biography by Geoff Saunders
$60.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
Sir Bob Charles - The Biography is the first comprehensive biography of Sir Bob Charles. This book begins in working-class rural New Zealand. In 1960 he embarked upon a career that no New Zealander had chosen before - that of a full-time touring professional. As told in Sir Bob Charles -The Biograph ...Show more
The Running Book: A Journey through Memory, Landscape and History by John Connell
$38.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
It is summer, the hay and silage have not yet been made on John Connell's farm, so he has time to indulge his other great passion: running. John sets off on a marathon run of 42.2 kilometres through his native Longford, the scene of his award-winning book The Cow Book. As he runs across woodlands, field ...Show more
Climbing Days by Dan Richards
$28.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
In Climbing Days, Dan Richards is on the trail of his great-great-aunt, Dorothy Pilley, a prominent and pioneering mountaineer of the early twentieth century. For years, Dorothy and her husband, I. A. Richards, remained a mystery to Dan, but the chance discovery of her 1935 memoir leads him on a journey ...Show more