The Call of Everest: The History, Science, and Future of the World's Tallest Mountain by Conrad Anker
$39.99 NZD
$69.99 (42% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Gripping and sumptuous, this is the definitive book on the history, mystique, and science of Mount Everest, including how climate change is impacting the world's tallest mountain. In 1963, the American Mount Everest Expedition made mountaineering history. It was the first American venture to successfull ...Show more
Get Fast!: A Complete Guide to Gaining Speed Wherever You Ride by Selene Yeager
$29.99 NZD
Category: Sport
Get Fast! is the cyclist's go-to guide for gaining speed. In it, author Selene Yeager addresses speed from every possible angle, including not only the standard chapters on riding techniques and bike maintenance tricks specific to getting fast but also stand-alone chapters on fitness and weight loss, st ...Show more
Triathlon - the Go Faster Guide: How to Make Yourself a Quicker Triathlete by Mark Barfield
$39.99 NZD
Category: Sport
Whether you've completed a single discipline, a few events or are already a seasoned triathlete, your goal is the same - to be better. Triathlon - the Go Faster Guide will smarten up your training, improve your technique and help you set out a plan to bring down your race times. Learn how to: goal set e ...Show more
A Life Without Limits by Chrissie Wellington
$24.99 NZD
Category: Sport
Chrissie Wellington is the world's No 1 female Ironman triathlete, a four times World Champion, having recently won her fourth title in October 2011 and the World Record holder. In 2009 she was voted "Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year" and in 2010 was awarded the MBE. She is the undefeated champion o ...Show more
Joanna Hall's Walkactive Programme: The Simple Yet Revolutionary Way to Transform Your Body, for Life by Joanna Hall
$39.99 NZD
Category: Sport
As an exercise physiologist, Joanna Hall knows without doubt that it is possible to get the body you long for without hassle, pain, guilt or cost. You don't need sophisticated, state-of-the-art exercise kit. You don't need a personal trainer or two hours a day of blood, sweat and tears in a gym. You hav ...Show more
Twirlymen: The Unlikely History of Cricket's Greatest Spin Bowlers by Amol Rajan
$27.99 NZD
Category: Sport
They are the masters of deception, the jokers in the pack; illusionists conjuring wickets out of thin air with nothing more than an ambled approach and a wonky grip. Not for them the brutish physicality of the pace bowler nor the reactive slogging of the batsman. Theirs is a more cerebral art. They stan ...Show more
Immortal: The Approved Biography of George Best by Duncan Hamilton
$37.99 NZD
Category: Sport
George Best is considered the greatest footballer of our time. No other imposed himself so completely on to the romantic imagination. No other was so emblematic of the era during which he flourished. And no other will ever be as memorable as George Best. On the field Best's skills were sublime and almo ...Show more
Running to Extremes by Lisa Tamati
$24.99 NZD
Category: Sport
Lisa Tamati gets asked one question more than any other: 'Why do you do it?' In Running to Extremes, she attempts to answer that question and many more about ultramarathon running. In the past few years, Lisa has taken part in some of the most gruelling races on earth. Not content with having run the Ba ...Show more
Official Soccer Rules Illustrated: A Quick Reference for All Coaches, Players, and Fans by Stanley Lover
$26.99 NZD
Category: Sport
With over 100 easy-to-follow illustrations, this completely updated Official Soccer Rules Illustrated answers all the frequently and not-so-frequently asked questions about the rules of soccer, providing fans, parents, and coaches with easily understood explanations of the rules of play, and imparting a ...Show more
Rugby Wit: Quips and Quotes for the Rugby Obsessed by Richard Benson
$27.99 NZD
$29.99 (6% off)
Category: Sport
Some might say there's nothing funny about scrums, cauliflower ears and the sin bin. Rugby Wit begs to differ. Bulging with wit, this book brings you hundreds of rugby-related quotes that range from the hilarious to the philosophical. Whether you know your league from your union or you think a hooker is ...Show more
Muhammad Ali: The Story of a Boxing Legend (HB) by Alan Goldstein
$45.00 NZD
Category: Sport
There is no greater sportsman on the planet than Muhammad Ali and this stunning illustrated book charts the extraordinary life of an extraordinary man through the words of not only Ali but those around him, who bore witness to the legend that was unfolding before their eyes. A three-time world heavyweig ...Show more
Shipton and Tilman by Jim Perrin
$27.99 NZD
Category: Sport
Using unpublished diaries, Jim Perrin, the acclaimed author of The Villain and Menlove, tells the story of the greatest exploring partnership in British history. In the 1930s Tilman and the younger Shipton pioneered many routes in Africa and the Himalayas and found the key to unlocking Everest. They cro ...Show more