Exploration & Adventure

1964. 1st edition. Dr Lewis's eventful account of the ocean-going catamaran 'Rehu Moana' to Northern waters in the early summer of 1963.

1965. The true story of a young Japanese sailor whose fascination with the art of sailing led him on a solo trans-Pacific journey.

1953. 1st edition. The author (Hans de Meiss-Teuffen) is a sailor of small boats, a world traveller and a born nomad.

1978. 1st edition. New Zealand Architect and crew explore Polynesia - excitement, humour, charts and cruising information.

1967. Francis Chichester's takes the reader stage by stage along the great clipper way followed by the gold, wool and grain clippers from Britain round the Cape of Good Hope to Australia.

1972. In the great tradition of British adventurers, David Pyle decided to undertake the longest open boat voyage ever - from England to Australia - with only one crew member.

1890. In 1889 the author, who later became famous as war correspondent of The Times, sailed the cutter Alerte on a treasure hunt to the uninhabited island of Trinidad off Brazil.

1953. 1st edition. Captain Bernicot's single-handed voyage round the world is very little known. It was completed at the end of May 1938, but his account did not appear until 1942.

1949. The Mariners Library - No.4. Story of sailing round the world complete with encounters with cannibals & hostile natives.

1950. The Mariners Library - No.12. Fascinating first-person narrative by a man who did what many dream of but few accomplish.

1940. 1st edition. Biography of R.G. Collingwood (1889-1943) who joined a group of Oxford students on a sailing voyage to the Greek islands.

2000. In 1983, 56-year-old Gerry Clark set off from New Zealand in a 10-metre wooden yacht to circumnavigate Antarctica in a quest for new information about seabirds.

1963. 1st edition. A true adventure book describes some of the discoveries and progress made by Captain Cousteau

1959. 1st edition. The story of the attempted crossing of the Atlantic from Tenerife to Barbados in the hydrogen balloon "Small World" in December 1958.

1963. The story of four ordinary young friends from Kaitaia that sail a Chinese junk 8,500 miles from Hong Kong to New Zealand in 1962.

1929. Gerbault's account of solo sailing in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, on The Firescrest.

1955. 1st edition. Detailing Gerbault's lone five-year voyage on the Firecrest around the world.

1963. 1st edition. One of the most amazing tales of shipwreck ever.

1979. 1st edition. Sailing Autobiography.

1981. 1st edition. After completion of her historic single-handed round-the-world voyage in 1978 Naomi James became a celebrity.

1974. Amazing story of survival at sea against all odds. Paperback edition.

1973. Amazing story of survival at sea against all odds.

1951. 1st edition. An anthology from the works of explorers and travellers between the years 1850-1900.

1913 (110 yo). Being the journals of Captain R. F. Scott, R.N., C.V.O.

2009. This eclectic history of exploration sweeps from antiquity to the 1800s.

Circa 1876. Account of 1st and 2nd voyages based on Cook's own journals and contemporary accounts; account of 3rd voyage abstracted from journals of Cook and King.

1972. 1st edition. Details the hardships of one of the first Pacific row attempts in 1971-1972.

1952. 1st edition. The true story of a voyage in a small sailing ship across the Pacific Ocean.

1956. 1st edition. Tells the story of a voyage on board the Yankee in Gloucester Harbour as it travels the world.

1959. 1st edition. The Kon-Tiki Expedition.

1959. 1st edition. English edition of the 1957 original Expedition Moana.

1999. 1st edition. The shocking true story of a ship wrecked at sea, cannibalism, and the resulting trial of the survivors for murder.

1990. 1st edition. The Spirit of Rose-Noelle 119 Days Adrift, a survival story - one of four survivors describes his 119 days adrift in a capsized sailboat on the open seas.

1955. The story of a great nautical adventure involving the first solo crossing of the Atlantic from east to west in 1923.

1963. 1st edition. Travelling with only a change of clothes in an old pillow case, a typewriter & rusty speargun, Pinney's journey through the West Indies & Pacific in 1962.

1971. The second world class ocean venture by Norwegian scientist-adventurer Thor Heyerdahl.

1914. Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last expedition.

1987. Account of the mysteries of Polynesian Navigation.

1973. 1st edition. The epic journey that took the Spaniard Vital Alsar commanding a crew of three men, three parrots, and two cats, traveling on top of 7 logs across the Pacific Ocean.

1964. 1st edition. The official account of the NZ Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1955/58 which was led by Sir Edmund Hillary.

1975. Eight men aboard a replica of 2000 year old Chinese junk attempt to prove that ancient mariners once voyaged from Asia to Central and South America.

1985. 1st edition. An epic 28000 mile circumnavigation of the globe sailing for 203 days non stop.

1955. Sebastian Snow's lone adventure to determine the real source of the Amazon (1951-1952)

1967. 1st edition. Francis Chichester's 1967 single handed circumnavigation set a blazing record for speed.

1956. 1st edition. Famous fishing boat pirate in a sailing ketch voyage to West Africa.

1957. 1st edition. Passage of an Australian dental surgeon on a 24 feet long gaff cutter.

2013. An entertaining safari from Botswana to Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa, crossing the Okavango Delta, going hunting with Kalahari Bushmen, and exploring the Namib Desert.

1963. British Sailors, Eric & Susan Hiscock, pioneers in making long trans-oceanic passages in a small sailboat.

2008. An exhilarating true-life adventure of one family’s extraordinary sea voyage of self-discovery and survival, tragedy and triumph.

1966. Adventures of rowing alone across the Atlantic in a tiny boat only twenty feet long and five feet wide.

1961. A unique account of a solo transatlantic voyage under sail, by the winner of the first transatlantic race ever held.

1958. Passage of an Australian dental surgeon on a 24 feet long gaff cutter.

1969. 1st edition. Author recalls his travels along the Black Sea coast of Turkey from Istanbul to Kars in his yacht.

2012. Follows Nicky’s journey from preparing the Mini, to crossing the scorching sands of North Africa and the Middle East.

1968. 1st edition. Family's adventures building their boat 8,300 feet above sea level and then sailing it from Kenya to New Zealand.

1968. The story of Cook's three historic voyages between 1768 and 1780 is one of the most remarkable in history.

2016. SIGNED. Kiwi yachtsman Graeme Kendall was the first person to sail the Northwest Passage solo non-stop.

1977. 1st edition. SIGNED. The story of Colin Quincey rowing alone for 63 days across one of the world's most treacherous seas.

2004. Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home.

2005. 1872 when HMS Challenger set sail from Portsmouth on the first sea voyage devoted to science.

2002. 1st edition. Philip Temple went to New Guinea with Heinrich Harrer to conquer the highest mountain in the Pacific.

2008. 1st edition. A concise and readable guide that provides clear, engaging answers, detailing essential information on the many aspects of Cook's voyages.