NZ Sport

For the first time, a camera goes deep inside the sacred space of the All Black camp - revealing the highs and the lows, the pain and the passion, the commitment and the courage of New Zealand's iconic sporting team. Best-selling photojournalist Nick Danziger and writer James Kerr have been granted unprecedented access to the All Black environment as the team builds towards the 2011 Rugby World Cup. The result is a landmark publishing event that looks at the men of the All Blacks and the land that they come from - focussing on how ... read more

A practical guide to mastering outdoor skills and staying alive in challenging environments, the Outdoor Survival Guide enables everyone - expert and novice alike - to answer the call of the wild with confidence. Packed with more than 950 full-colour illustrations, including many step-by-step sequences, the Outdoor Survival Guide offers an unparalleled understanding of the outdoors. It demonstrates hundreds of specific techniques for staying warm and dry, obtaining food and water, travelling, and getting help, including making a le... read more

The 7th edition of Classic New Zealand Mountain Bike Rides is fully revised and includes all new photographs, 140 new tracks, and many new maps and altitude graphs. It is an indispensable guide for all mountain bikers, written in an inspiring style. It includes detailed descriptions of over 300 rides around New Zealand and a chapter on ride preparation and equipment. Paperback 416pp h180mm x w115mm full colour photographs, 130 altitude graphs and 60 colour maps First published November 2008.

Snow-capped mountains, fine sand beaches, geothermal hot spots, and dramatic coastal cliffs form the backdrop for those specially-designed, internationally acclaimed courses that suit casual as well as competitive play -- and just for the love of the game, those charming and often challenging rural courses where fairways might be shared with sheep, New Zealand

High Misadventure explores the dark face of climbing in New Zealand - the times when a slip or a poor decision can lead to tragedy. Climber/journalist Paul Hersey takes eight incidents from among the many of recent decades, and explores the critical factors behind them. Among the incidents he covers are the deaths of five climbers when the Three Johns Hut blew away in 1977, the 1990 loss of six army cadets during a training exercise on Ruapehu, and the 2004 deaths of four climbers on Mount Tasman. As well as offering a white-knuckl... read more

The traditions of motor sport competition in New Zealand are as old as the mode of transport itself. Vehicles powered by an internal combustion engine were relatively fast and reliable, but more importantly offered ‘potential’, once the principles were understood then a whole world of possibilities opened up. In many respects, what is now seen as the typically ‘do-it-yourself’ approach of Kiwi motor sport enthusiasts can be traced back to those early days. Days when purpose-built factory racers were rare in ... read more

These are inspirational stories about Kiwi sportswomen who are making it to the top in their chosen sports internationally and nationally - in traditional and non traditional sports with psychological evaluations of their strategies and techniques - in the style of our very successful book on leading businesswomen, Living Life Out Loud. The author is an international soccer star in her own right, and a New Zealand representative on the FIFA council. The book profiles 17 of NZ's top female sporting athletes, coaches and administrato... read more

The All Blacks are one of the most enduringly successful and best-known sports teams in the world. Rugby people follow their every move and are more likely to know key dates in All Black history than they are their own wedding anniversary. But not everyone knows everything there is to know about the All Blacks. This is the book for them. When did the All Blacks first perform the haka, and why? What is the haka? How many different haka have the All Blacks performed? And here's a question that may even stump the rugby enthusiasts: wh... read more

Dan Carter is without doubt the hottest property in world rugby. At just 23 years of age, Carter is now regarded as the pre-eminent flyhalf in the game. In "My Way" - a book aimed at the "kidult" market - Carter will offer tips on playing the game, skill drills and training to succeed. In addition, the book will also take a look at Carter's early life and focus on some of the key moments in his career to date, including his virtuoso performance for the All Blacks against the British and Irish Lions in the second test of the 2005 se... read more

It should be no surprise to anyone that he went on to become one of our most successful jockeys, regularly winning the annual racing premiership and taking out five of the possible six $1 million dollar races run in the 1990s. He won the Japan Cup on Horlicks, at the time the world’s richest race with a $5 million stake, has taken out every major race in Australasia and was a huge success while riding in Hong Kong. His story is one of sporting excellence, dedication, hard work and stunning success, along with crippling injury ... read more

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Surfing is a seductive mistress, providing inspiration, a time for reflection, personal challenge and sheer exhilaration. This is especially true in NZ, where we have an affinity with the sea, and a disproportionately high number of artists, writers and musicians surf. Aaron Topp, himself a surfer, explores this close relationship, and the role surfing and the sea plays in the creative lives of a selection of leading musicians, painters, sculptors, poets and fellow writers. In a series of perceptive and revealing personal profiles,... read more

Steve Gurney is an exceptional athlete. He has been in 19 of the epic Coast to Coast races in a row, and he has won nine of them. He has represented New Zealand twice at the World Mountain Bike champs and has spent a lot of time adventure racing in far flung jungles, caves, mountains and deserts. Steve says people joke about his "Lucky legs" ..."lucky they don't snap off and poke up your bum!". He's got bandy legs, he's short and he's not physically talented or gifted as an athlete. He is however ultra-fit but anyone can do that, o... read more

Simply put, New Zealand is a great place to be a surfer. In Searching for Groundswell, Paul Hersey takes the ultimate surfing road trip, looking to connect with the best beach breaks, points and reefs along the 15,000 kilometres of coastline that surround New Zealand. He journeys to Dunedin, the Catlins, Christchurch, Kaikoura, the West Coast, Wellington, Taranaki, Raglan, Tauranga, East Cape, Gisborne and Auckland before returning to his surfing roots in Northland. Paul discovers that the sleepy surf communities of his youth are n... read more

Ruben Wiki is the talismanic leader of the Kiwis rugby league team—a 12 season veteran of the NRL who, in 2005, led New Zealand to an historic series victory over Australia and guided his side to Tri-Nations glory. Wiki’s story is one of raw courage and genuine pride. South Auckland born and educated, he is immensely proud of his roots and his M... read more

Fifteen years on since it was first published, Old Heroes is regarded by many as a classic in the annals of New Zealand sports publishing. Some critics, in fact, regard the book as the finest sports book ever published in New Zealand.2006 marks 50 years, since the mighty Springboks suffered their first series defeat at the hands of the All Blacks. In Old Heroes (first published in 1991) Warwick Roger sets out to discover what it was that made 1956 so special, for himself, and for the country. Through his own recollections of '56 - ... read more

The 2005 rugby season marks the tenth anniversary of several inextricably linked rugby events - the creation of SANZAR, Tri-nations and the Super 12, and the associated rise of rugby professionalism. Each of these events has had a significant impact on the face of international rugby and played a major part in the development of the modern game. While New Zealand has dominated the Super 12, Australia and South Africa have shared moments of glory in the fiercely fought Tri-nations. All 60 Tri-nations matches and all of the Super 12 ... read more

Sea kayaking is a major, year-round recreational activity in New Zealand. With its mild climate and wonderful coastline, New Zealand would have to be among the best places in the world to go sea kayaking. This new book by the very experienced Kerry Howe won't tell you how to paddle or brace -plenty of other books cover basic skills - but it will tell you how to plan a tour along the Kiwi coastline, and as such will fit neatly alongside New Holland's existing sea kayak titles (Sea Kayaker's Guide to New Zealand's North Island and...... read more

This edition is out of print. The Silver Ferns are netball world champions, and the idols of young players who every week take to the courts in their thousands - more than 65,000 to be exact. The 5-7 year olds play as Fun Ferns and the 8-10 year olds as Future Ferns, but they all want to emulate their heroines - the women in black and silver who took on the world's best in Jamaica. Jane Hunt has worked with Netball New Zealand to prepare a player's guide to netball, for primary and secondary netballers. While aimed in the first ... read more

Born To Thunder profiles New Zealand's Olympic medallists Gary Anderson and Sarah Ulmer, earlier heroes like Nick Carter and Warwick Dalton, and many other giants of the road and track over the past 60 years.