Thread: Excellent Books by Kiwi Authors

Hey Team

Over the dark winter months I've found myself raiding the bookshelf for classics that I want to read again. Here are a couple of excellent reads from Kiwi authors. If anyone has any other recommendations for shelf keepers, let us know. I've bought these, and they will always grace my book shelf (well, the ones I'm allowed to use). Seems like the best way to encourage them to write again!

James Passmore

"The New Zealand Hunting Rifle" has been a real staple for a history and understanding of rifle makes, calibres and types in New Zealand. My favourite chapters are on "Bush Rifles" and "Mountain Rifles". In the chapter on Bush Rifles he makes an excellent case for the use of lever actions with open sights and a heavy round. As many of us know, a single rifle in a gun cabinet has a habit of attracting other friends, and I now have a lever action to accompany my mountain rifle. I keep going back to this book when I'm learning about a particular calibre as a reference point.

"The New Zealand Wilderness Hunter" provides experiences hunting predominately the South Island. I keep going back to this novel when I want to experience a hunt I've never done before. He treats our environment and game with the utmost respect. Stories reflecting on being lost in Fiordland, hunting fallow in the Blue Mountains in the winter's snow, the different types of hunter (meat, trophy, experience)... One of my favourite quips is around his arguing then not talking to his backpack after a grueling day on the hill. So good.



Richard Hall

"Dark Forest Deep Sea". A mixture of growing up in New Zealand, learning to fish, hunt and spearfish. For those of us with spearfishing in the blood the Welly and Great Barrier Island stories with some old familiar names will have you reminiscing. He has a way of capturing how a hunter often feels when fighting the cold, a cold, the bush or mountains. Brilliant stories, and not all about dead animals at the end.