A FAMILY OF HUNTERS: TUCKER TIME. By Phil Tucker and Barbara Jamieson-Tucker.

2012 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 220mm). Pp336. Colour and b/w photographs, b/w illustrations, foreword by Harry Bimler. White card covers.

"This is a story about more than one generation of the Tucker family with the common bond of hunting and the outdoors. The Tuckers and the Jamiesons were hunting families, both had been used to living off the land." Chapters include: The way we were - rabbits, possums and goats - the Tucker family; In the footsteps of my father - the Jamieson family; NZFS woodsmen days; West Coast chamois hunt; Deer culling Te Hoe country; Rusa country; Goat culling in the Waiau-Waikaremana district; Return to Mahitahi; Back to Te Hoe country; Stewart Island adventures; Mamaku royal; The elusive sika; Return to Stewart Island; Tramlines to tall pines; Smoked trout, ducks, bunnies and water cress; Fiordland adventures; A record goat; Chamois against all odds; Chance for a chital; Tahr for Ma; Barb bags a buck; Barbara's boundary stag; Challenges of the rugged Raukumara; Te Urewera calling; Big Oronui 14; A return to familiar country; Boris the boar - Tucker's tusker; Points to ponder; Farewell my friend.