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Blue Planet Run: The Race to Provide Safe Drinking Water to the World by Wade Davis
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
From the creators of the highly acclaimed "New York Times" best-selling "Day in the Life" and America 24/7 series, Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt, "Blue Planet Run" provides readers with a fascinating and thought-provoking look at the water problems facing humanity on every continent, as well as some o ...Show more
Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
$35.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
A monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest. For Mallory as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day'. As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. What ...Show more
Into the Silence - The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: good
If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country and a people bled white by war. Of the 26 British climbers who, on three expeditions (1921-24), walked 400 m ...Show more
Magdalena: River of Dreams by Wade Davis
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
A captivating new book from Wade Davis - winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence - that brings vividly to life the story of the great Rio Magdalena, illuminating Colombia's complex past, present, and future. Travellers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their he ...Show more
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest by Wade Davis
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
From the author of Into The Silence, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. In 1941, Richard Evans Schultes took a leave of absence from Harvard University and disappeared into the Northern Amazon of Colombia. The world's leading authority on the hallucinogens and medicinal plants of the re ...Show more
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest by Wade Davis
$53.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
In 1974-75, Wade Davis and Tim Plowman traveled the length of South America, living among a dozen Indian tribes, collecting medicinal plants and searching for the origins of coca, the sacred leaf of the Andes and the notorious source of cocaine. It was a journey inspired and made possible by their Harva ...Show more
Trees: Between Earth and Heaven by Art Wolfe (Photographer); Gregory McNamee; Daniel J. Hinkley (Foreword by); Wade Davis (Introduction by)
$95.00 NZD
Category: photography
Art Wolfe's immersive photos capture the wonder humans have felt about trees for millennia. From the biblical Tree of Life to the Native American Tree of Peace, trees have played an archetypal role in human culture and spirituality since time immemorial. An integral part of a variety of faiths--from Bud ...Show more
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