{"product_id":"9781775491835_tough-country","title":"Tough Country","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTall tales of bushmen, bulldozers and back-country blokes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'It was the mid-1970s and I was about eight, I thought it was completely normal for your old man to pull out a high-powered deer-hunting rifle and fire it through the kitchen door from the breakfast table...'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1970s and 80s, Barry Bellamy was a fair old bushman, traversing the back-country from Hawke's Bay to the far north in a blue ex-airforce Land Rover. His son Mike would join him as he took up work, wherever he could get it. Tough Country is Mike's story, about a bygone era of bushmen, scrub-cutters, hunters and shepherds. Later, Mike forged his own life working on the land, and his stories of the characters of the 1980s and 90s, from tradies to digger-drivers, are as hilarious as they are quintessentially Kiwi.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mike Bellamy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46908441264277,"sku":"9781775491835","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9781775491835_69fe058b-5759-4295-b46f-e89b84339a0f.jpg?v=1776992608","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781775491835_tough-country","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}