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Book Cover: The Third Man Factor: the secret to survival in extreme environments
By John Geiger

The Third Man Factor presents an astonishing idea: that people at the very edge of death, often adventurers or explorers, detect an unseen being beside them who encourages them to make one final effort to survive.

The Third Man Factor presents an astonishing idea: that people at the very edge of death, often adventurers or explorers, detect an unseen being beside them who encourages them to make one final effort...

Published: 30/08/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921656637
RRP: $25.95
Book Cover:  Everything that Follows is Based on Recent, Real Life Experience that has been Proven to Work
By James Shepherd-Barron

'Whether you're a budding James Bond out to save the world or a gap year student out to explore it, this fantastic book is the one you need to take with you'
CHARLIE HIGSON

During my career as a military peace-keeper and foreign aid worker I've faced many life-threatening situations.




'Whether you're a budding James Bond out to save the world or a gap year student out to explore it, this fantastic book is the one you need to take with you'
CHARLIE HIGSON

During my career as a military...


Published: 12/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781846143052
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Walking For Fitness
By Nina Barough

Keep fit, tone-up and lose weight - walking is the perfect way to achieve optimum health, hassle free.  Power-walking expert Nina Barough reveals there is a world of difference between a casual stroll and an energising, body-sculpting power walk.  Founder of the annual Moonwalk, Nina explains how this low-impact form of exercise can be done by anyone, anywhere at anytime and her total walking...

Keep fit, tone-up and lose weight - walking is the perfect way to achieve optimum health, hassle free.  Power-walking expert Nina Barough reveals there is a world of difference between a casual stroll...

Published: 28/02/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405366397
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Mountaineers
By Geographical Society Royal
An epic guide to the most intrepid mountaineers in history. Written in association with the Royal Geological Society, Mountaineers tells the story of the pioneers who first conquered the giddy heights of our planet.
An epic guide to the most intrepid mountaineers in history. Written in association with the Royal Geological Society, Mountaineers tells the story of the pioneers who first conquered the giddy heights of our planet.
Published: 28/11/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781405365598
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover:  Survival Skills
By Dorling Kindersley

Practical pocket guides, for quick and easy reference any time, anywhere.

Survival Skills is a handy, pocket-sized instruction manual, covering the fundamentals of survival with step-by-step illustrations and clear, bite-sized tips. Offering everything you need to know to get started, along with a wealth of expert tricks and tips to improve skills and techniques, from choosing and packing your gear...

Practical pocket guides, for quick and easy reference any time, anywhere.

Survival Skills is a handy, pocket-sized instruction manual, covering the fundamentals of survival with step-by-step illustrations...

Published: 28/02/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405351447
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover: The Survival Handbook in association with the Royal Marines Commandos
By Dorling Kindersley

Essential skills for outdoor adventure from the Royal Marines Commandos.

Learn to stay alive with the Royal Marines. Want to know what to do if you met a bear in the woods, how to light a fire in the rain or what to do in shark-infested waters? Get the answers to these and many more questions with the ultimate guide to survival techniques as experienced by the Royal Marines Commandos.

Essential skills for outdoor adventure from the Royal Marines Commandos.

Learn to stay alive with the Royal Marines. Want to know what to do if you met a bear in the woods, how to light a fire in the rain...

Published: 30/03/2009
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781405322362
RRP: $45.00
Book Cover:  Handbook of Knots: Expanded Edition
By Des Pawson
An illustrated, practical guide to tying more than 100 knots.
An illustrated, practical guide to tying more than 100 knots.
Published: 06/09/2004
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405304672
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Day Walks of Fiordland & Southland
By Marios Gavalas

Day Walks of Fiordland & Southland is the essential walking companion to 70 of the best short walks in and around the lower South Island of New Zealand.   Walks featured include those in the regions of Invercargill, Bluff, Catlins, Gore, Te Anau/Manapouri, together with the world-class scenery offered on the Milford Road.

Day Walks of Fiordland & Southland is the essential walking companion to 70 of the best short walks in and around the lower South Island of New Zealand.   Walks featured include those in the...

Published: 01/11/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780790010731
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover:  Day Walks of the Wairarapa
By Marios Gavalas

Day Walks of Wairarapa is the essential walking companion to nearly 50 of the best short scenic walks in and around the beautiful Wairarapa region, including the Tararuas, Mt Holdsworth, the Rimutakas – all the way along the coast and everywhere in between.

Day Walks of Wairarapa is the essential walking companion to nearly 50 of the best short scenic walks in and around the beautiful Wairarapa region, including the Tararuas, Mt Holdsworth, the Rimutakas...

Published: 19/09/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780790010748
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover:  Day Walks of Dunedin & Coastal Otago
By B Wilson & D

Coastal Otago is perfect for trampers and day walkers. It offers a fascinating mix of scenery, from the spectacular cliffs and white-sand beaches where seals and penguins abound, to the steep ridges with stunning views and valleys of dense bush and clear streams. To the north is a flatter landscape rich in fossils and Maori rock drawings, and to the south are the tussock lands of the Lammerlaws and...

Coastal Otago is perfect for trampers and day walkers. It offers a fascinating mix of scenery, from the spectacular cliffs and white-sand beaches where seals and penguins abound, to the steep ridges with...

Published: 12/11/2004
Format:
ISBN: 9780790009858
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover:  Day Walks of Hawke's Bay
By Marios Gavalas

Look closer and the delights of the Hawke's Bay landscape are many and varied.   Verdant beech and podocarp forests, lofty viewpoints on the summits of the Ruahine and Kaweka ranges and an invigorating coastline are easily discovered.

Look closer and the delights of the Hawke's Bay landscape are many and varied.   Verdant beech and podocarp forests, lofty viewpoints on the summits of the Ruahine and Kaweka ranges and an invigorating...

Published: 05/09/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780790010243
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover:  Day Walks of Taranaki
By Marios Gavalas

Nearly 70 short walks around the greater Taranaki area are covered in this, the next in Reed's popular Outdoors guidebook series.   Walks that feature include around north Taranaki, New Plymouth, Egmont National Park, East and North Egmont, Dawson Falls, the Kaitake and Pouakai ranges as well as around Mt Egmont/Taranaki itself.

Nearly 70 short walks around the greater Taranaki area are covered in this, the next in Reed's popular Outdoors guidebook series.   Walks that feature include around north Taranaki, New Plymouth...

Published: 09/11/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780790010311
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover:  Day Walks of New Zealand: Nelson and Marlborough
By Trafford & Ian & Gavalas & Marios

Day Walks of New Zealand – 40,000 copies sold!

 

Nelson and Marlborough provide an incredibly wide range of outdoors experiences for the casual walker. Day Walks of New Zealand: Nelson and Marlborough offers over 130 of the best short excursions throughout the region, selected by well-known outdoors writers Marios Gavalas and Ian Trafford.

 

Day Walks of New Zealand – 40,000 copies sold!

 

Nelson and Marlborough provide an incredibly wide range of outdoors experiences for the casual walker. Day Walks of New Zealand: Nelson and Marlborough...

Published: 30/11/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143567097
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Day Walks of New Zealand:Northland and Greater Auckland
By Gavalas & Marios & Janssen & Peter

Day Walks of New Zealand – 40,000 copies sold!

 

Northland and Greater Auckland offers an incredibly wide range of outdoors experiences for the casual walker. Day Walks of New Zealand: Northland and Greater Auckland offers over 120 of the best short excursions throughout the region, selected by well-known outdoors writers Marios Gavalas and Peter Janssen.

 

Day Walks of New Zealand – 40,000 copies sold!

 

Northland and Greater Auckland offers an incredibly wide range of outdoors experiences for the casual walker. Day Walks of New Zealand: Northland...

Published: 30/11/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143567103
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Are you Ready? The Essential disaster survival guide for Every New
By Anon.

Disasters happen quickly and without compassion, disrupting thousands of lives every year. During a disaster emergency services may not be able to respond to every call immediately, and this means you must be ready to provide your own shelter, food, first-aid, water and sanitation for at least three days.

Are you ready?

This is your complete guide to what to do before, during and after disaster...

Disasters happen quickly and without compassion, disrupting thousands of lives every year. During a disaster emergency services may not be able to respond to every call immediately, and this means...

Published: 29/08/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143566748
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Trail: Riding the Otago Central Rail Trail

For the many thousands who have walked or ridden the Otago Central Rail Trail it holds particular, cherished memories. Some impressions will stick for a lifetime: bouncing over bone-rattling bridges, or sailing through sheer-sided canyons of schist. Or simply barrelling along, mile after mile, with the gravel crunching beneath your tyres under endless wide blue skies. 

For the many thousands who have walked or ridden the Otago Central Rail Trail it holds particular, cherished memories. Some impressions will stick for a lifetime: bouncing over bone-rattling bridges, or...

Published: 29/08/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143566076
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover:  Day Walks of New Zealand: Central Otago and Queenstown
By Peter Dymock

Day Walks of New Zealand – 40,000 copies sold!

 

With a dry, sunny and reliable climate, a dramatic landscape and widespread evidence remaining of a romantic goldrush past, Central Otago and Queenstown are the outdoor capitals of New Zealand.

 

Day Walks of New Zealand – 40,000 copies sold!

 

With a dry, sunny and reliable climate, a dramatic landscape and widespread evidence remaining of a romantic goldrush past, Central Otago and...

Published: 07/02/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143565666
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Day Walks of New Zealand: Canterbury and Kaikoura
By Mark Pickering

Day Walks of New Zealand – 40,000 copies sold!

 

Canterbury presents a great richness of outdoor experiences, from the Kaikoura Coast to the heights of Aoraki/Mt Cook. Day Walks of New Zealand: Canterbury and Kaikoura offers over 60 of the best short excursions throughout the region, selected by well-known outdoors writer Mark Pickering.

 

Day Walks of New Zealand – 40,000 copies sold!

 

Canterbury presents a great richness of outdoor experiences, from the Kaikoura Coast to the heights of Aoraki/Mt Cook. Day Walks of New Zealand:...

Published: 13/01/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143565512
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Guide to the Otago Central Rail Trail

A COMPLETELY UP-TO-DATE GUIDE to one of New Zealand most popular scenic and historic routes for trampers and cyclists, the Otago Central Rail Trail.

The Otago Central Rail Trail is a hike and bike trail that follows the old railway line built through Central Otago in the late 19th century, at a time when bridges and viaducts were constructed in hand-shaped stone. The trail is 150 km long and has been...

A COMPLETELY UP-TO-DATE GUIDE to one of New Zealand most popular scenic and historic routes for trampers and cyclists, the Otago Central Rail Trail.

The Otago Central Rail Trail is a hike and bike trail...

Published: 16/09/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143202530
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Day Walks of Greater Wellington
By Marios Gavalos

Wellingtonians and visitors alike have difficulty choosing a walking area to explore because they are so spoilt for choice. The region's landscape boasts an enviable mixture of dense podocarp broadleaf forests and the dappled interior of beech forests, bare high hills with unencumbered views and windswept coastal stretches.

Wellingtonians and visitors alike have difficulty choosing a walking area to explore because they are so spoilt for choice. The region's landscape boasts an enviable mixture of dense podocarp broadleaf...

Published: 24/11/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143011019
RRP: $19.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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