Wild Pork and Watercress

Name: Wild Pork and Watercress
Brand: Penguin Group (NZ)
SKU: 9781776950720
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By Barry Crump

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This classic has been released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format reaches further back to 1935, when Allen Lane founded Penguin Books with a clear vision: ‘We believed in the existence of a vast reading public... Read More

Format: Paperback / softback

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Wild Pork and Watercress

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Wild Pork and Watercress

Description

This classic has been released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format reaches further back to 1935, when Allen Lane founded Penguin Books with a clear vision: ‘We believed in the existence of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price, and staked everything on it.’

When Social Welfare threatens to put Ricky into care, the overweight Māori boy and cantankerous Uncle Hec flee into the remote Ureweras. The impassable bush serves up perilous adventures, hunger, and wild pigs. Worse still are the authorities, determined to bring the pair to justice. But life on the run also delivers a bond of trust and love.

The novel was developed into the box-office hit Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781776950720

Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ)

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 August 2023

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Penguin Books (NZ)

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 113.0mm

Height: 180.0mm

Weight: 118g

Pages: 208

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About the Author

The laconic Barry Crump, who died in 1996, began writing humorous sketches of life as a government deer-culler and pig hunter, publishing these as A Good Keen Man in 1960. By 1992 his New Zealand book sales were estimated at more than a million copies. As well as a bestselling author, Crump was an actor, television personality, poet, radio commentator, traveller, goldminer, photographer and more. Crump wrote 24 books in his lifetime, was married five times and had six children, all sons.