The ShearersGet up close and personal with New Zealand shearers, from now and decades gone by. The Shearers is a colourful account of the men and women, past and present, who have committed their lives to shearing in New Zealand. Their voices in their own words, often brutally honest reflections on what it is to be a shearer are at the heart of this book their training, their tools, their camaraderie, and the gruelling, itinerant nature of the job. Old hands like