Mike BellamyMike Bellamy is a New Zealand author and earthworks contractor who lives in Taupo, New Zealand. His first book, Tough Country, was about the lives of loggers, hunters, scrub-cutters, fencers and bushmen in the New Zealand hinterland. Bellamyalso spent 30 years in the mining country of Western Australia, which is the setting for his second book of yarns, Tough Outback. Read More Read Less