Tough Country: 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.--publisher's Website. Mike Bellamy.