Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World by Will Cockrell
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest. Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a r ...Show more
MAGIC: The Life of Earvin Magic Johnson by Roland Lazenby
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The definitive biography of the basketball legend Earvin 'Magic' Johnson, from the author of Michael Jordan: the Life. Magic Johnson is one of the most beloved, and also controversial, athletes in history. He lifted the dowdy sport of American pro basketball into the global spotlight, a transformation d ...Show more
Modern New Zealand Cricket Greats - From Stephen Fleming to Kane Williamson by Dylan Cleaver
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sports & Outdoors
New Zealanders have just lived through a Golden Age of Cricket. That's not a sentence many brought up with a love of the great game in the 1990s thought they would read as the national side took the gains made in the 1980s - mostly though the deeds of the great Sir Richard Hadlee and the burgeoning tal ...Show more
Unstoppable: The Ultimate Biography of Max Verstappen by Mark Hughes
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A definitive and intriguing biography of Max Verstappen, Formula 1's hottest new superstar, Lewis Hamilton's great rival, the winner of the 2021 World Drivers' Championship, and the recently crowned 2022 champion. No Hollywood scriptwriter could possibly have envisioned the breathless, adrenaline-pump ...Show more
Black Gold: The story of how the All Blacks became rugby's most valuable asset by Gregor Paul
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sports & Outdoors
The story of global rugby's golden goose. This book tells the story of how the All Blacks have been commercialised in the professional age of rugby and the challenges that have come with the team having an enormous international profile, but a domestic market without the scale or means to monetise the b ...Show more
The Great Race: 60 years of the Bathurst 1000 by Aaron Noonan
$38.00 NZD
Category: Sports & Outdoors
The cars, the stars, the thrills and the spills from 60 years of the Bathurst classic by Australia's premier motorsports journalist with a foreword by five-time winner Garth Tander The Bathurst 1000 is undoubtedly Australia's 'Great Race', forever part of the sporting fabric of the nation. The 1000-kilo ...Show more
Sled Dog Racing in New Zealand: a Photographic Odyssey by Teresa Angell
$89.00 NZD
Category: Sports & Outdoors
Niche, dog-based sport in photographs with some text.
Duck Hunting in New Zealand by Gary Girvan
$20.00 NZD
Category: Sports & Outdoors
The opening of gamebird season - the first weekend of May - has been part of New Zealand's history since the early nineteenth century and still holds an attraction for thousands of enthusiasts - over 30,000 gamebird hunting licences are sold in New Zealand annually. In 2005, non-toxic shot regulations w ...Show more
Enzo Ferrari: The definitive biography of an icon by Luca Dal Monte
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sports & Outdoors | Reading Level: near fine
Soon to be an AppleTV+ series, Enzo uncovers a wealth of new facts about the origins, ambitions, and private life of Enzo Ferrari.Drawing on years of original research conducted in Italy and abroad, this book lays bare the hidden aspects of Ferrari's career. From his earliest failed business ventures, t ...Show more
Wheels: Modern Classics: 20 Legendary Sports Cars from the 80s, 90s and Noughties by Are Media Books
$55.00 NZD
Category: Sports & Outdoors
Over 220 stunning pages, Wheels MODERN CLASSICS relives 20 of the fastest, sexiest, most advanced and most-cherished vehicles ever to impact the performance car world. From the screaming atmo V12 of a Lamborghini Diablo, to the hairy-chested V8 of a Holden SS Commodore, we deep dive on their engineering ...Show more
How to Wild Swim: What to Know Before Taking the Plunge
$38.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
Practical advice and instruction to get the very best out of wild swimmingThe manual every amateur wild swimmer needs to read before diving in.Whether you want to explore remote beaches and mountain lochs, improve your confidence in open water, refine your swimming technique, or have a race or long-dist ...Show more
2023 New Zealand Cricket Almanack by Francis Payne; Ian Smith
$55.00 NZD
Category: Sports & Outdoors
The New Zealand Cricket Almanack is the cricket lover's bible and is regarded worldwide as one of the finest books of its kind. The 76th edition contains all the details of another full year of cricket at all levels. As usual, there is a detailed records section and a fascinating collection of the seaso ...Show more