Best Selling Hunting & Fishing Books

This rich and vivid, highly illustrated social history gives an insight into the world of the New Zealand hunter. Hunting is central to many New Zealanders' lives - whether it's to feed their families, earn a living or to explore the country's amazing wilderness. Hunting: A New Zealand history de...

All you need to know about smoking food from renowned New Zealand chef, Chris Fortune. Includes . . . • hot and cold smoking techniques • smoking essentials and pre-smoking processes; including preparation of food • information on the types of smoker you can use, including Kiwi ...

Philip Holden was a great outdoorsman, whose writing explored the heart of rural New Zealand. When Philip passed away in 2005, he had written 57 books, many of them New Zealand classics. His proud legacy is preserved in this handsome, richly illustrated volume. Hunting & High Country brings toget...

This remarkable book is for everyone who fishes with a fly rod - or wants to learn. With a fly rod, fishing for trout, salmon, bass, pike, panfish, or saltwater gamefish can become the most exciting kind of sport there is. "Joan Wulff's New Fly Casting Techniques "pioneers a set of casting "mechanic...

The intention of this book is to help you get started in bow hunting. Plain and simple information designed to help you become a successful bow hunter.

This is a clear and simple guide to building a semi- or full-auto pistol or a single-shot, falling-block handgun from common materials in the privacy of your home workshop. In addition to offering many alternative workshop gunsmithing tips, the author explains how each part and section of the gun is...

Expert sewer of clothing for 18-inch dolls, Joan Hinds, is at it again, this time with fun, hip, trendy, and fashionable clothes for some of today's most popular dolls! This great new book provides 35 patterns for clothing and accessory items that can be mixed and matched to create an infinite numbe...

With disarming honesty and freshness, Derek Grzelewski has written a highly readable account of his year dedicated to fly-fishing in New Zealand, relating the highs and lows, and the intricacies and finesse, of pursuing trout in the wild places and pristine waters he loves so much. The thrill of clo...

Anthony Swainson has devoted more than half a century in search of the perfect day's fishing. His quest includes the rivers and streams of New Zealand, the raging East Coast seas and fishing trips halfway round the world. Tangled Lines is his collection of whimsical stories, relating his fishing ody...

John Kent's North Island Trout Fishing Guide is a practical handbook that provides accurate, up-to-date information on trout fishing in the North Island of New Zealand. Kent draws on over 50 years' trout fishing experience and a lifelong enthusiasm for New Zealand's back-country and high-country fis...

John Kent's South Island Trout Fishing Guide is a comprehensive guide to the South Island's incomparable trout fishing waters. More than 400 rivers and 150 lakes are described, along with their location, access, fishing season and appropriate techniques and flies. This book will be of special intere...

John Eichelsheim's first book on plastic baits (Gotcha!) heralded a revolution in New Zealand fishing. Fishing with soft plastics has continued to grow in New Zealand, and John Eichelsheim has returned to the file to update and revise the text with new develolpments in the soft bait revolution. ...

Tony Orman is well respected in NZ hunting circles. Now in his seventies, he still relishes any opportunity to escape everyday routine, to throw his gear into a pack, pick up his rifle and head off into the mountains. He is a passionate advocate for hunting and the great outdoors. With A Hunting Lif...

Winchester enthusiasts of all interests will benefit from the expertly analysed prices, 500 superb colour photos and technical details featured in this one-volume reference. With five grades of pricing for Winchester rifles and shotguns manufactured between 1866 and the present, technical details, t...

Al Brown can be counted on to find and share great New Zealand cuisine. In Go Fish Al combines his two great passions - cooking and fishing - and brings us more than 100 exceptional fish and shellfish recipes. Covering crustaceans, shellfish and fin fish of many varieties, Go Fish is the ultimate gu...