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Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
A monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest. For Mallory as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day'. As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. What ...Show more
Into the Silence - The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good
If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country and a people bled white by war. Of the 26 British climbers who, on three expeditions (1921-24), walked 400 m ...Show more
Magdalena: River of Dreams by Wade Davis
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author and winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize- the epic story of Colombia's Rio Magdalena and of the country's past, present and futureA captivating new book from Wade Davis - winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence - that brings vividly to life the story of the grea ...Show more
Magdalena: River of Dreams by Wade Davis
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
A captivating new book from Wade Davis - winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence - that brings vividly to life the story of the great Rio Magdalena, illuminating Colombia's complex past, present, and future. Travellers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their he ...Show more
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest by Wade Davis
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
From the author of Into The Silence, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. In 1941, Richard Evans Schultes took a leave of absence from Harvard University and disappeared into the Northern Amazon of Colombia. The world's leading authority on the hallucinogens and medicinal plants of the re ...Show more
River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado by Wade Davis
$39.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Plugged by no fewer than twenty-five dams, the Colorado is the world's most regulated river, providing most of the water supply of Las Vegas, Tucson, and San Diego, and much of the power and water of Los Angeles and Phoenix. If the river ceased flowing, it would soon be necessary to abandon many of the ...Show more
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