STUDENT HUNTER: THE HUNTING TALES OF A UNIVERSITY STUDENT. By James Morris.

2012 1st edition. 8vo paperback (153 x 232mm). Pp132. Colour photographs.

"Student Hunter is about the three years the author spent as an undergraduate student at University of Canterbury... Living as a poor student should, money was always a limiting factor. Harvesting meat was reason enough to spend every last dollar on petrol to head out of Christchurch into the hills." Tales of hunting chamois, tahr and others in the hills of Canterbury and South Westland on New Zealand's South Island. "Hunting is in my blood, always has been. Ever since I can remember I have hunted however I could. ...My time was never more mine, and never more invested into hunting as it was recently when I found myself at university; organising my own way in the world. I enjoyed my days as a student living like no other period of my life and I am glad I made the most of it. Recording the hunting I did in those years has been a great project because although the memories are fresh now, I know once life in the real world kicks in they will fade into only dreams of a past life." Chapters include:- South Westland: the beginning of a love affair; A new mate, new adventures; Roaring stags and a chamois buck; University blues, more South Westland adventures; Arthurs Pass buck fever; Huntsoc; Return to Westland paradise; Throw a girl in the mix; A lost soul leaves a secret possie; An Arthurs Pass stag; Bull tahr surprise; The longest day; Hangi hunt, tahr's revenge; Russell's first; Rutting chamois; Revisiting an old lover.