Going to extremes
Subtitle: adventures in unknown New Zealand
By: Derek Grzelewski
Publisher: David Bateman Ltd
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Auckland, New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781869538262
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Outdoor life; Adventure and adventurers
Description: "Collection of my best non-fishing stories: climbing, cave diving, saving kakapo and kiwi, pioneering aviation and scuba diving for sunken treasures, epic journeys, ultra-running, lichens, avalanches, fire-fighting and more."--Author's web page.
Notes: "Comprising some of Derek Grzelewski's best published work to date, these stories explore and reveal a deeper meaning of the extreme. They transport you to extraordinary, unexpected and inaccessible places, and into encounters with exponents of the extreme, some elite, others seemingly ordinary. The extreme is not just the edge in outdoor exploits like hunting for gold and sunken treasures, climbing mountains and scuba diving in caves, or in maritime and avalanche rescues and pioneering aviation. It can also be found in saving endangered species, the tenacity of lichens surviving in outer space, rebuilding a life after an accident, the desire to discover the unknown, the quest for freedom"--Cover flap.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The forest solitaire; title: The last cruise of the Mikhail Lermontov; title: Tales from the underworld; title: The odyssey of Alphonse Barrington; title: Flower of the sky; title: The night belongs to the kiwi; title: In praise of the humble lichen; title: Kelly; title: AVALANCHE!; title: Run for your life; title: Heroes who walk among us.