The Adventure Of Finding Me In New Zealand
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| Author | : Jim Peacock |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2021-04-05 |
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In 1983 I traveled to New Zealand for over 6 months, including stops in Hawaii and Australia. While in New Zealand, I was caught in a flash flood while backpacking alone in the Fiordlands of the South Island. This book is about my near-death experience alone 15 miles from the nearest person. At one point, while swimming through the forest to find high ground, I went under and drowned...saw my life pass before my eyes and the white light at the end of the tunnel. Somehow I made it back to the surface. It is also about my personal exploration as to what was important to me at that time and what continues to be important to me to this day. Things like family, the outdoors, learning about other cultures, reading, writing, and more. Join me on my adventure to New Zealand and into myself.
| Author | : Polly Evans |
| Publisher | : Delta |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2008-12-10 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 030748680X |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Polly Evans was a woman with a mission. Before the traditional New Zealand male hung up his sheep shears for good, Polly wanted to see this vanishing species with her own eyes. Venturing into the land of giant kauri trees and smaller kiwi birds, she explores the country once inhabited by fierce Maori who carved their enemies’ bones into cutlery, bushwhacking pioneers, and gold miners who lit their pipes with banknotes—and comes face-to-face with their surprisingly tame descendants. So what had become of the mighty Kiwi warrior? As Polly tears through the countryside at seventy-five miles an hour, she attempts to solve this mystery while pub-crawling in Hokitika, scaling the Southern Alps, and enduring a hair-raising stay in a mining town where the earth has been known to swallow houses whole. And as she chronicles the thrills and travails of her extraordinary odyssey, Polly’s search for the elusive Kiwi comes full circle—teaching her some hilarious and surprising lessons about motorcycles, modern civilization, and men.
| Author | : Jamie Baywood |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2014-11-03 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781910651049 |
Craving change and lacking logic, at 26, Jamie, a cute and quirky Californian, impulsively moves to New Zealand to avoid dating after reading that the country's population has 100,000 fewer men. In her journal, she captures a hysterically honest look at herself, her past and her new wonderfully weird world filled with curious characters and slapstick situations in unbelievably bizarre jobs. It takes a zany jaunt to the end of the Earth and a serendipitous meeting with a fellow traveler before Jamie learns what it really means to get rooted.
| Author | : Lynn Paterson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Kayaking |
| ISBN | : 9780473470944 |
A one woman kayaking odyssey when she sets off to voyage around NZ , it tests her limits and what solo means. Her journey doesnt always go to plan. Yes she discovered that one person can achieve monumental things by herself. But she learnt something else too - the power of connection to others. Ultimately, her story is about discovering the god and the bad of being SOLO, in life as well as on the water. An extraordinary woman. An incredible story. But beware: going on this jouney with Red might just change your life.
| Author | : Christina Thompson |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2009-07-14 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1596911271 |
"A multilayered, highly informative and insightful book that blends memoir, historical and travel narrative-vivid and meticulously researched."--San Francisco Chronicle
| Author | : Anna McNuff |
| Publisher | : Anna McNuff |
| Total Pages | : 540 |
| Release | : 2020-09-14 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781999765873 |
"When I ran, I ran for pleasure. I didn't run for times, to win, to impress: I ran for me. When I ran my bum cheeks rubbed together, so much so that if I was going on a long run I'd have to 'lube up'. I maintained that I was not a 'real' runner - I just liked to run so that I could eat cake." Anna was never anything like those 'real' runners on telly - all spindly limbs, tiny shorts and split times - but when she read about New Zealand's 3,000-kilometre-long Te Araroa Trail, she began to wonder... perhaps being a 'real' runner was overrated. Maybe she could just run it anyway? Travelling alone through New Zealand's backcountry for 148 days, she scrambled through forests, along ridge-lines, over mountain passes, along beaches and across swollen rivers. Running up to 52 kilometres in a day, she slept wild most nights, and was taken into the homes and hearts of the kiwi people in between. The Pants of Perspective is a witty, colourful and at times painfully raw account of a journey to the edge of what a woman believes herself to be capable of. It is a coming-of-age story which will lead you on a roller coaster ride through fear, vulnerability courage and failure. For anyone who has ever dreamt of taking on a great challenge, but felt too afraid to begin - this story is for you.
| Author | : Rosalind James |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Businesswomen |
| ISBN | : 9780988761902 |
An American businesswoman decides to have a New Zealand getaway, and once there, she has a fling with a rugby player.
| Author | : Scott Cook |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : North Island (N.Z.) |
| ISBN | : 9780979923289 |
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 696 |
| Release | : 1914 |
| Genre | : Adventure stories |
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| Author | : Gerard O'Neill |
| Publisher | : Gerard O'Neill Books |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2015-06-19 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
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Be careful what you wish for! For fans of slow building, character driven, intense and compelling psychological thrillers. A self-obsessed Japanese icon appears to have a perfect life. Fame, fortune, and a celebrity marriage… but all is not as it seems. Yayoi wears her glamor like a mask. There are dark corners of her life she wants to hide from her many fans. An abusive husband, an oppressive recording contract with J-BIG Corp, a company controlled by her husband's family that is crushing her creativity. Then there are all her memories of a life swept away by a tsunami. While in New Zealand to film a music video, she is surprised by her estranged husband Nori, who without warning appears at her hotel and assaults her. On the run from both Nori and J-BIG, she meets Bill, a young corporate attorney recently made redundant, who plans to revisit his past in the hope he can heal old wounds and reshape his future. Although from two very different worlds, they find themselves falling for each other, both unaware of the extreme measures Nori will take to get Yayoi to return to Japan with him. The Girl With Two Names is set in urban Japan and the raw backwoods of New Zealand. NB : the book, as stated above, is a psychological thriller. You are being purposefully placed in the head of a heroine with strong personality flaws that do have severe outcomes for those who allow her into their lives. This is an important aspect of the story. _______________________ Four out of four stars! - Official Review, Online Book Club
