A Bushman's Book of Yarns

Sam Gibson

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781923627345
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

Back to the bush with another round of cracking yarns from the best-selling author of Sam The Trap Man, including a guide to edible native plants and trees.
Back to the bush with the bestselling author of Sam The Trap Man.
Sam Gibson's best-selling debut, Sam The Trap Man, introduced us to a natural-born storyteller with a deep enthusiasm for the ngahere. Now, Sam takes us back to the bush with another round of cracking yarns and hard-case characters, as well as a guide to edible native plants and trees – perfect for inspiring the next generation of bushmen.
Whether it's tackling naked kiwi with lacrosse sticks, stumbling across giant red stags in Haast or trading venison for crayfish in Fiordland, Sam's the man to inspire not only your next outdoor adventure, but a lifelong love and respect for the ecosystem we're lucky enough to call home.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedicated to Keith Tihema Beale (1937–2025)
• Contents
• Introduction
• Rehua’s First Hut
• It Was Persisting Down
• Raukūmara: Shooting Tomorrow’s Trophies Today
• The Honey Hole
• Uncle Kerry
• Euan’s First Deer
• Naked Kiwi And Lacrosse Sticks
• Te Waiotukapiti
• Caught By the Gonads
• The Biggest Stag I Have Ever Seen . . .
• Resolution Island and the Super Seaman
• Wintering Over in Fiordland
• Finding the Extinct South Island Kōkako
• Kōkō’s First Trout
• Harriet and Her Te Urewera Trophy
• Te Urewera: Twenty-Three Deer and Five Whio
• A Fiordland Twelve
• Hāwea Heavyweights
• Flounder, Whitebait and Greenstone
• Acknowledgements
• Glossary