In New Zealand, refers a person that works and/or lives in the bush. In opposition to townies or cockys (
dairy farmers). Historically
bushmen were often cullers and/or
loggers.
Josh James is New Zealand’s answer to British adventurer and television star Bear Grylls. Tall, bearded and intense, ‘The Kiwi Bushman’ is a
pastiche of what it means to be the archetypal man in this country. Based in a small township* on the West Coast of the South Island, James is a
jetboating, deer-hunting, tahr-killing, fish-catching
wildman.