Halcyon Publishing Ltd: 26 books
by Colin Davey
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Originally published by A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1965, this is the first of a new series of books by The Halcyon Press, “Halcyon Hunting Classics.” Voted one of the best ten hunting books of the twentieth century, Halcyon have re-issued in a modern format this classic hunting tale. Set first in the Wairarapa...
The Travelling Hunter
A Kiwi at Home and Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Vern Wilson takes a light-hearted look back at some of his more successful overseas hunting trips. Always on the lookout for that special trophy, after all, one is all you are allowed, in most hunting destinations, unlike New Zealand. Travel opened Vern’s eyes to the wider world of hunting.Good company...
by Tony Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2013
“Twenty percent of the fishermen catch eighty percent of the fish” Tony Bishop has been writing books on fishing in New Zealand since 1997 his first book Fishing Smarter became an instant best seller and has been reprinted six times. Aware that much has changed in the saltwater fishing scene since...
by Simon Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Ever since their release at the head of George Sound in March 1905, nothing has aroused hunters’ passion more than the greatest of all the deer species, the magnificent wapiti. A big bull taken in Fiordland’s demanding terrain is New Zealand’s premier big game trophy. Rampant commercial exploitation,...
Injun Joe
The Ledgend of Smoking Joe Collins
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
This is the life story of ‘Injun Joe’, born Wellwyn Harris Collins, in 1950. His mother was half-caste Maori of the Ngati Kahungunu tribe, his father a Scottish-Irish immigrant whose family had substantial holdings in Hawke’s Bay.Joe became well known as an elite hunterhelicopter pilot, one of...
The Hedgehog Kid
The hunting and travel adventures (and misadventures) of a New Zealand country boy
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2013
Dave Blair is "the Hedgehog Kid." "I came into the world of wildlife as a five-year-old when my father bought an 83 acre farm in Taranaki. It was here I began to live in the world of animals and birds and begin an adventurous life because of them. They became my escape. From the moment I saw the hawk...
Hawks
A new edition of the Kiwi masterpiece on the venison wars in New Zealand's wild south west
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Hawks is the tale of New Zealand’s wild south-west, set during the early years of the venison recovery industry. This was the era when the cowboys rode choppers instead of horses and used semi-automatic weapons, not six guns. They lived, worked and often died in the most rugged, inhospitable and spectacular...
by Ken Cuthbertson
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2013
This book is set in the best pig hunting area of New Zealand; the Wanganui hinterland and the author tells a good yarn of his early days in the Te Tuhi valley and of the big boars he encountered. It is a story of pioneer farming and the battle against the bust and the wild pigs that ravaged the sheep...
by Dave McClunie
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2013
Dave McClunie loves the mountains, the animals that inhabit them and the freedom and challenge they represent. From a rural background he moved to the West Coast of the South Island to become a hunting guide to spend more time in the mountains he loves. As a guide, his principal quarry have been the...
by Steuart Laing
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Tens of thousands of men and women regularly hunt for big game in New Zealand and not surprisingly, many books have been written about the sport of hunting. Many of these books are memoirs about lifetimes spent shooting deer for fun or for money. New Zealand Hunting Adventures stands apart because, while...
by Bomb Grant
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Bomb Grant author of Hunting Forever–Forever Hunting and Dances with Boars is back with this new book. What makes a pig hunter? Bomb looks back to his early days at his introduction to the sport of pig hunting, family played a big part for him. The early morning starts, the sound of thedogs on a bail,...
Son Of The Mist
The Hunting Career of Howard Egan
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2013
Howard Egan aka “Grandad” to his friends on the FishnHunt internet forum, has beeninvolved with the outdoors his whole life. From Acclimatisation Societies, New ZealandDeerstalkers Association, both at branch and national level, including a term as president,Ducks Unlimited and a host of other similar...
Blood Brothers
The exploits of Steve and Chris Podjursky
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Blood Brothers traces the lives of Steve and Chris Podjursky, two bold and daring Ki- wis addicted to the excitement and fear of the adventurous spirit. Not academic, they became high achievers by snatching opportunities that came their way. First ground hunters, hunter pilots, then international pilots,...
Why Trout Usually Win
The Guide's Book of Fishing Excuses
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Fly fishing for trout has been written about for hundreds of years. There are easier ways of catching trout but the fascination of fly fishing endures into the modern era. Despite major advances in equipment and countless variations on patterns of fly the actual method is remarkably faithful to that...
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