By Rex Forrester. In Softcovers small craese top back cover, First Published in 1983 This edition 1988, Black and White Photographs, 168 Pages, Published By Penguin Books Auckland.
A Near Fine Copy.
'This is the story of the chopper boys, the adventurers who risk their lives hunting deer from helicopters in NZ's remotre mountains and fiords. They are tough men in a tough environment and Rex Forrester doesn't pull any punches in this saga of danger, heroism, sweat and skill. In the competitive venison industry the stakes are high and the pressures immense. Nerves are stretched to breaking point and adrenalin flows. The book tells of the 'meat hawk wars'- the allegations of poaching, the episodes of violence. Backgrounding NZ's now-thriving deer-farming industry, Rex Forrester makes some hard-hiting criticisms of burteaucracy. He began his own working life as a Government deer cullere and he tells of thjose days of appalling wholesale slaughter to eliminate a 'noxious' species. With the establishment of the deer farms came the need to capture live deer. Kiwi ingenuity rose to the challenge with the development of net-gun technology. Rex Forrester ends with a plea for men of vision to conserve NZ's game resources, arguingthat although we still have the opportunity to create a game paradise in this country, time is running out'
Clkassic Book in demand.