Non-Fiction (Books)

Description The Find Your Feet Trail Running Guidebook provides athletes of any ability a safe pathway of preparation to their chosen adventures. Hanny Allston’s personal coaching methodologies focus on sustainable, long-term health, training and performance successes. The Trail Running Guidebook contains a snapshot of key lessons that...

‘In nothingness there are only the heartbeats of hope. I vow to myself that I will clamber out of this hole. I will find my feet and flourish.’ At 19, Hanny Allston faces a ‘perfect storm’. Her father is terrifyingly ill. Beside his hospital...

Across mountains, down rivers, along coasts, through forests: Tarkine Trails / takayna makuminya, with its splendid photographs and maps, is the definitive guide for adventurers to the Tarkine as well as browsers at home wanting the pleasures of wild Tasmania on their coffee table. Here...

Kilian Jornet has conquered some of the toughest physical tests on the planet. He has run up and down Mt. Kilimanjaro faster than any other human being, and struck down world records in every challenge that has been proposed - all before the age...

The most accomplished mountain runner of all time contemplates his record-breaking climb of Mount Everest in this profound and free-flowing memoir-an intellectual and spiritual journey that moves from the earth's highest peak to the soul's deepest reaches.The world's fastest mountain climber, ultra-runner, and mountaineer,...

David Williams, seventy-four years old and a long-time resident of Flinders Island, Tasmania, tells the story of his lifelong running adventure. An Unstoppable Runner describes the physical and mental challenges he has encountered in such diverse locations as the blister-making Simpson Desert, muddy New...

All the facts and advice for anyone curious about feeling and doing better through a plant-based diet.Our health is in crisis and so is our climate.What if there was a way of eating that may help us live healthier for longer and protect the...

We're all born with a certain "imprint" for work that makes us come alive. This is your "Sparketype," your DNA-level driver of work that lets you know, deep down, you're doing what you're here to do. Work that motivates you, fills you with purpose...

A practical companion to the global phenomenon Drawdown, offering a toolkit of actions for every level of societySince its publication in 2017, Drawdown has become a key reference work in environmentalism, around the world. Where Drawdown focused on modelling the most effective, known solutions to global warming....

English born, Tasmanian based journalist Rob Shaw has been writing about sport in his adopted state and country for more than three decades. Here he chooses his favourite columns recording the highs and lows of competitive sport.

Born premature Matt Levy was thrown into the world and given two choices: to sink or to swim. Beating all the odds, he emerged as a Paralympic Gold Medallist, public speaker, and a business manager–all due to a mindset shift he experienced fighting for life at...