Category: Sport & Recreation | Series: Bird's Eye Guides
New Zealand's North Island has a wide range of world-class mountain biking tracks and Mountain Biking North is a guide to 34 of the best of these rides. Selected by expert mountain biker and photographer Dave Mitchell, they range from straightforward and easy rides close to our urban areas, through to h ...Show more
Category: Sport & Recreation
Enjoy the simple pleasure of a leisurely bike ride to a cafe, playground or picnic spot. These safe and easy cycle paths enable you to enjoy the outdoors at your own pace. 62 leisurely rides. Taffic free and safe. 1-3 hours riding time. Maps include bike hire, cafes and much more.
Category: Sport & Recreation
Russell Ord's spectacular images have won him worldwide recognition, and deservedly so. Based in WesternAustralia, Russell is renowned for his awesome images of super thick empty peaks and heavy sessions at reefslike The Box and The Right. You can pick up any surf magazine in the country and find Russel ...Show more
Category: Sport & Recreation
"Wherever you are in the North Island you're sure to be within reach of a short walk with an excellent destination. Peter Janssen has hand-picked more than 250 short but memorable walks throughout the mainland and offshore islands. All walks will suit those who enjoy walking but do not want a long tramp ...Show more
Category: Sport & Recreation
Since this book was first published in 1991, mountain bike events, tracks and bikes have undergone a stunning transformation - from pushing heavy fully-rigid clunkers along overgrown stock routes to whipping around purpose-built trails on lightweight full-suspension machines. And over that time, this bo ...Show more
Category: Sport & Recreation
The rollicking adventure of the world's greatest car race - the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon. 1968, ninety-eight competitors stormed out of London on the world's greatest automotive adventure, the London to Sydney Marathon, the most ambitious and epic car race ever staged. Four weeks later the ...Show more
Category: Sport & Recreation
History is brought to life in this celebration of the Taranaki Round the Mountain Classic cycle race. For a century, cyclists have tested their mettle in this hundred-mile race around the majestic cone of Mt Taranaki. New Zealand's longest-running race, the mountain circuit has been a prestigious yard ...Show more
Category: Sport & Recreation
'Bloody brilliant.' - Greg Norman This book tells the magnificent, sometimes tragic, always inspiring stories of the greats of golf and how they lit up the world with their own brands of magic. Since Old Tom Morris won three of the first four Open Championships in the 1860s at the famous St Andrews co ...Show more
Category: Sport & Recreation
You might run for fitness. You might run for speed. But ultimately, running is about much more than the physical act itself. It is about the challenges we face in life, and how we measure up to them. It is about companionship, endurance, ambition, hope, conviction, determination, self-respect and inspir ...Show more
Category: Sport & Recreation
Whether they're threading a barrel or shredding a swell, these amazing women are making enormous waves in the world of surfing. If you thought surfing was a male-dominated sport, think again. The thirty women surfers profiled in this thrilling collection can rip a wave with the best of them. Hail ...Show more
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