Bibliograph

Back of beyond, Hugh Tindall's stories of a shearing life in outback Australia, Freda Marnie Nicholls

Type

Label

Back of beyond, Hugh Tindall's stories of a shearing life in outback Australia, Freda Marnie Nicholls

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Back of beyond

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Freda Marnie Nicholls

Sub title

Hugh Tindall's stories of a shearing life in outback Australia

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

Classification