Everest 1922 - The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the Worlds Highest Mountain by Mick Conefrey
$28.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
The dramatic and inspiring account of the very first attempt to climb Mount Everest, published to coincide with the centenary of the expedition of 1922.The first attempt on Everest in 1922 by George Leigh Mallory and a British team is an extraordinary story full of controversy, drama, and incident, popu ...Show more
The Monuments - The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races by Peter Cossins
$37.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
An awe-inspiring history of the five most legendary "classic" races in world cycling. The Tour de France may provide the most obvious fame and glory, but it is cycling's one-day tests that the professional riders really prize. Toughest, longest and dirtiest of all are the so-called 'Monuments', the ...Show more
Beryl - In Search of Britain's Greatest Athlete by Jeremy Wilson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2022. Winner of The Times Sports Books of The Year 2022. A Financial times Best Sports Book of 2022. Cyclist Beryl Burton dominated her sport much as her male contemporary Eddy Merckx, with a longevity that surpasses sporting legends like Muhammad ...Show more
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an all-night runner by Dean Karnazes
$28.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
Fully revised and updated for 2023, this is the inspiring journey of Dean Karnazes, an internationally recognized endurance athlete who has pushed his body and mind to inconceivable limits. Includes a new epilogue detailing his training and diet tips. '[Karnazes'] spirited memoir . . . can help mere mor ...Show more
Twenty One Nights In July: A personal history of the Tour de France by Ianto Ware
$30.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
When chronic insomniac and reluctant office worker Ianto Ware went looking for answers to life's big questions, he found them in the world's largest bike race. Twenty-One Nights in July is a joyride through the Tour's greatest moments part love letter to cycling, part history of the Tour de France, and ...Show more
The Race Against Time: Adventures in Late-Life Running by Richard Askwith
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
A quest for the secrets of happy, healthy whole-life running, and how runners can keep enjoying their sport, whatever their ageWhat do you do when the sport that has been your lifeline to physical and mental well-being starts to slip away from you?Richard Askwith, a life-long running enthusiast, was sun ...Show more
Good for a Girl: My Life Running in a Man's World by Lauren Fleshman
$38.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
From the time Lauren first laced up her running shoes to dominate boys in her neighbourhood, through puberty when half of all girls abandon sports for good, into the NCAA where young women routinely starve and hurt themselves, and into elite running where she had to be 'fast and fuckable' to fit into th ...Show more
Gloves Off: Tyson Fury Autobiography by Tyson Fury
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
The No-Holds-Barred Autobiography - including the full story behind Tyson's record-breaking victory against Dillian Whyte at Wembley stadium in front of 94,000 peopleTyson pulls no punches in his most candid, comprehensive and entertaining book yet, which chronicles for the first time in full his inspir ...Show more
Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorised!) Biography of Golf's Most Colourful Superstar by Alan Shipnuck
$35.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A rollicking good time." --Golfweek * "Thoroughly engaging." --The Washington PostA juicy and freewheeling biography of legendary golf champion Phil Mickelson--who has led a big, controversial life--as reported by longtime Sports Illustrated writer and bestselling author Alan S ...Show more
The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again by Jim Davidson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal in eighty-one years and killed nearly 8,900 peopl ...Show more
The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing by Mark Kurlansky
$28.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
National Outdoor Book Award Winner for Outdoor LiteratureFrom the award-winning, bestselling author of Cod-the irresistible story of the science, history, art, and culture of the least efficient way to catch a fish. Fly fishing, historian Mark Kurlansky has found, is a battle of wits, fly fisher vs. ...Show more
The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine that Made the Modern World by Bryan Appleyard
$38.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
The car that we know - petrol or diesel-driven and operated by a human - will soon be replaced by electric cars which, in turn, will become self-driving. The reign of the car, which began in the late nineteenth century, will have lasted at most 150 years.More than any other technology - more than televi ...Show more