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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.

'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.

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...

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...

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.

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 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.

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...

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.

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.

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!

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.

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...

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. 

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!

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.

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...

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.