Relentless - The First Person to Solo Kayak the Tasman by Scott Donaldson; Steve Kilgallon
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: good-very good
The story of Scott Donaldson's relentless journey to be the first person to cross the Tasman sea solo in a kayak. Unpredictable and unforgiving, the Tasman Sea is one of the most hostile stretches of water in the world. An Australian adventurer attempted to kayak across in 2007, disappearing without a ...Show more
Expeditions Unpacked by Ed Stafford
59.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
"A fascinating and unique look at these celebrated expeditions. Ed Stafford knows all too well how important an explorer's kit can be and this brilliant book gives great insight into the role it plays." --Sir Ranulph Fiennes In this unique and enthralling book, explorer and survivalist Ed Stafford curat ...Show more
The Sea Journal: Seafarers' Sketchbooks by Huw Lewis-Jones
65.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
The sea has been an endless source of fascination, at once both alluring and mysterious, a place of wonder and terror. The Sea Journal contains first-hand records by a great range of travellers of their encounters with strange creatures and new lands, full of dangers and delights, pleasures and perils. ...Show more
Hawking by Jim Ottaviani; Leland Myrick (Illustrator)
44.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
Following their New York Times-bestselling graphic novel Feynman, Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick deliver a gripping biography of Stephen Hawking, one of the most important scientists of our time.From his early days at the St Albans School and Oxford, Stephen Hawking's brilliance and good humor were obv ...Show more
Elon Musk: A Mission to Save the World by Anna Crowley Redding
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
A riveting and beautifully designed YA biography that shows how a once-bullied school boy became an iconic visionary who the New York Times described as "arguably the most important and successful entrepreneur in the world." Elon Musk is the visionary behind SpaceX and CEO of the electric car company Te ...Show more
Dottir -The Making of a Two-Time CrossFit Champion by Katrin Davidsdottir
44.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
This is a memoir by two-time CrossFit Games champion, Katrin Davidsdottir.DOTTIR is two-time consecutive CrossFit Games Champion Katrin Davidsdottir's inspiring and poignant memoir. As one of only two women in history to have won the title of "Fittest Woman on Earth" twice, Davidsdottir knows all about ...Show more
And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Portrait of Oliver Sacks by Lawrence Weschler
44.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile him for The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings but the book had hardly been an immediate success, and the rumpled clinician was still largely unknow ...Show more
The Art of Growing Up by John Marsden
39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
When I hear parents say 'I want my children to enjoy their childhood; there'll be time when they're older to learn about those things', I hear the voices of those who are scared of the vastness of the universe. These adults have a view of childhood as some kind of discrete interval, rather than just a f ...Show more
My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
'A Catch Me If You Can for the internet age... What Anna did was make Instagram flesh.' Guardian 'Anna looked at the soul of New York and recognized that if you distract people with shiny objects, they will be virtually unable to see anything else. And the thing was: it was so easy.' New York Magazine ...Show more
Bowie by O'Neill: The Definitive Collection with Unseen Images by Terry O'Neill
79.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
This book is the breathtaking result of iconic photographer Terry O'Neill's creative partnership with David Bowie that spanned over a number of years, including images published here for the first time. Containing rare and never-before-seen photographs, their work together includes images from the last ...Show more
Nobody's Victim: The Fight Against Psychos, Pervs and Trolls by Carrie Goldberg
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
An unflinching look at a hidden world most people don't know exists-one of stalking, blackmail, and sexual violence, online and off-and the incredible story of how one lawyer turned her own hell into a revolution. "We are all a moment away from having our life overtaken by somebody hell-bent on our dest ...Show more
Is There Still Sex in the City? by Candace Bushnell
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Twenty years after her sharp, seminal first book Sex and the City reshaped the landscape of pop culture and dating with its fly on the wall look at the mating rituals of the Manhattan elite, the trailblazing Candace Bushnell delivers a new book on the wilds and lows of sex and dating after fifty. Set be ...Show more