TRAPPERS, HUNTERS 'N' CO. By Wayne Blake.

2008 1st edition. 8vo paperback (146 x 220mm). Pp376. Colour and b/w photographs. Green card covers.

Looking back, "these were definitely the heydays of hunting in our country. A wonderful unregulated era in which the great New Zealand adventure was firing on all cylinders - a wonderful time to live." Frontier hunting and shooting in New Zealand - mostly deer but other species too, and lots on the early days of the Forest Service. Includes two long chapters on the cray fishing bonanza in Fiordland. An exciting and very varied read. Chapters include: Hut builder; Life in the Hopkins; Getting there; Back at Clements; Guns 'n' tallies; Punchy passing through; Fish 'n' chips; Life on the edge; Checking out; Safari south; Craypots and venison; Life on the ocean wave; Time 'n' tide; Dabbling in the Dobson; Out for a duck; Odey country; Horoeka tent camp; Sweet apples 'n' sour pork; Waipakihi - spring 1967; Deep south; The meat shooters; The Alabaster Strip; Taringamotu; Trapper's camp at Ruamata; Comings and goings; Summer interlude; Waione (winter 1969); Mopping up.