Tough Country
On Sale: 08/05/2020
Tough Country
On Sale: 08/05/2020
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About the Book
Tall tales of bushmen, bulldozers and back-country blokes
'It was the mid-1970s and I was about eight, I thought it was completely normal for your old man to pull out a high-powered deer-hunting rifle and fire it through the kitchen door from the breakfast table...'
In the 1970s and 80s, Barry Bellamy was a fair old bushman, traversing the back-country from Hawke's Bay to the far north in a blue ex-airforce Land Rover. His son Mike would join him as he took up work, wherever he could get it. Tough Country is Mike's story, about a bygone era of bushmen, scrub-cutters, hunters and shepherds. Later, Mike forged his own life working on the land, and his stories of the characters of the 1980s and 90s, from tradies to digger-drivers, are as hilarious as they are quintessentially Kiwi.
Product Details
- ISBN: 9781775491835
- ISBN 10: 1775491838
- Imprint: HarperCollins
- On Sale: 08/05/2020
- Pages: 256
- List Price:35.51 CAD
- BISAC1 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BISAC2 : SPORTS & RECREATION / Hunting
- BISAC3 : NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
- BISAC4 : HISTORY / Social History
- BISAC5 : HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand
