A HUNTER'S LIFE: The Life and Times of a Professional Hunter, by Rex Forrester. Viking Press. Softcover. 152 pages. Very good condition.

Deer culling, helicopter hunting, live deer capture, packhorse handling, pig hunting, bushcraft, safari guiding -- Rex Forrester has seen it all. For 50 years he has lived and breathed hunting, and become a legend in his own lifetime.

A Hunter's Life contains the stories of a life of hunting adventures, from the eager young boy determined to become a professional hunter, to government deer culler surviving in the bush in the good old days, to finally setting up a new industry around hunting and fishing tourists.

The dangers, the risks, the thrills and spills, the self-reliance, the mateship. This punchy and action-packed book offers a unique picture of hunting in New Zealand, told by a seasoned professional.