Category: Tramping & Mountaineering
New Zealand's Great Walks are world class. In a country blessed with hundreds of spectacular tracks to choose from, these are considered the best of the best. They pass through some of our most breathtaking landscapes - including golden sand beaches, ancient rainforests and high mountains. New Zealand's ...Show more
Category: Tramping & Mountaineering
After John Hunt's successful 1953 expedition he wrote in his diary that at least the Everest story was finished. In fact, it had scarcely begun. The first ascent was the end of a chapter but far from the end of the story. Since those days, well over 300 men and women have stood on the summit of the worl ...Show more
Category: Tramping & Mountaineering
Category: NZ Sports & Athletics
Despite what happened at Lord's in 2019, New Zealand has won a Cricket World Cup. It was at Lincoln in December 2000 that New Zealand beat Australia to win the Women's World Cup. The first recorded cricket match in New Zealand between teams of women had been played in the Wairarapa as long ago as 1867 ...Show more
Category: Tramping & Mountaineering
This guide describes nine of New Zealand's classic back-country walking tracks, including: Stewart Island's North-West circuit; the Kepler, Milford, Routeburn, Heapy and Abel Tasman tracks; and circuits of Mount Taranaki, Ruapehu and Lake Waikaremoana.
Category: Tramping & Mountaineering
Category: Hunting and Fishing
Category: Sports & Athletics | Reading Level: very good
In the 1930s the New Zealander Jack Lovelock was one of the world's best-known athletes. In 1933 he broke the world record for the mile. At the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games he won a gold medal and broke the world record for the 1500 metres. When he retired, a leading sports writer lamented the end of a gol ...Show more
Category: Sports & Athletics
While the world suffered the great depression in the thirties, one aspect of society was booming. Track and Field had become hugely popular and milers above all. This meticulously researched book by New Zealand journalist Lynn McConnell charts the period between the Los Angeles Olympics in 1932 and the ...Show more
Category: Sports & Athletics
From beloved golf writer James Dodson, author of Final Rounds and American Triumvirate and a two-time winner of the USGA's Herbert Warren Wind Award for best golf book of the year, The Range Bucket List is a funny, intimate, nostalgic journey of self and sport in which the legendary author completes his ...Show more