Back of beyond: Hugh Tindall's stories of a shearing life in outback Australia
(2015)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Allen & Unwin : Made available through hoopla, 2015
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781743438169 (electronic bk.) MWT11569314, 1743438168 (electronic bk.) 11569314
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Hugh Tindall is an ordinary man who has lived through extraordinary times in outback Queensland. From a poor man's selection on the Diamantina in 1928 to owning six large stations with his family, from shearing his first 100 sheep a day at the age of 16 to organizing sheds in the long running 1956 shearer's strike, Hugh's story is part of a turbulent time in the outback, whose history he is passionate about. Told in his own voice, it is an honest account of life in isolated western and central Queensland, where the tough survived or died
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