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Story: The New Zealand bush

Barry Crump

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Barry Crump

Writer and outdoorsman Barry Crump poses while rabbiting at Reporoa in 1961. The previous year he had published A good keen man, a collection of yarns from his days as a deer culler. The book was a huge publishing success – affirmation that the rough culture of the bush formed an important part of Kiwi identity.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

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Jock Phillips, The New Zealand bush – Attitudes to the bush, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/14502/barry-crump (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 1 March 2009.