Thursday, August 07, 2014

Pete the Bushman


Pete the Bushman lives in an isolated town on the rugged West coast. you’ll find it south of hokitika, between lake lanthe and the waitaha river. when you get there it wont be bustling. the population numbers exactly two.

Peter Salter is a true kiwi bloke. He can hunt, fish, and eks out a living from the bush. Pete the Bushman is his story. It’s the story of a true New Zealand bushman, of a life lived against the grain, of adventure in New Zealand’s thickest wilderness and a lifestyle any kiwi bloke would envy.

Pete has lived a life inseparable from the bush and these are his stories and lessons, most learned the hard way. They involve weather and women, mountains and helicopters, wild horses and gelignite, bureaucrats, possum pie and the politics of poison.

Want to know more about Pete?

·         He’s a conservationist in his own way, though many conservationists don’t agree with him (he’s anti 1080 but pro cyanide)

·         He owns his own town called Pukekura where he’s lived for 35 years and which he’s made into a tourist destination (well, along with his wife Justine)

·         He and Justine got married in wedding outfits made of possum on top of a peak in the Southern Alps

·         He’s won awards for his wild food, and then come a cropper with the government for his famous possum pies

·         He’s had a few near misses when hunting so he’s not above dressing a dead deer in an orange Day-Glo jacket for safety

·         He might just be the closest thing New Zealand has to Crocodile Dundee

Pete the Bushman
By Peter Salter with Nigel Zega
RRP: $39.99 -  Random House

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