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Outback Cop by Evan McHugh; Neale McShane
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Birdsville is one of the most remote police postings in Australia. It can be lonely and uneventful for weeks, then the dramas come thick and fast: from desert rescues to rising floods, venomous vipers to visiting VIPs. Throw in heat, dust and flies and it's not a job for the faint-hearted, unless you'r ...Show more
Outback Legends by Evan McHugh
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
These people are very different, but they have much in common. They?re the salt of the outback, but they?re not from long ago and far away. You can rub shoulders with them here and now. They?re our outback legends.Immerse yourself in these armchair travels and heart-warming life stories as Evan McHugh, ...Show more
Outback Stations by Evan McHugh
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
'From the helicopter I could see the property's waterholes surrounded by paperback trees, its red-stone cliffs lit by the rising sun. and grass, endless seas of grass. Here was the vision splendid: Nat Buchanan's grass castle. Gurindji country. and my country, Australia.'This is big country, the outback ...Show more
Outback Stations: The Life and Times of Australia's Biggest Cattle and Sheep Properties by Evan McHugh
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'From the helicopter I could see the property's waterholes surrounded by paperbark trees, its red-stone cliffs lit by the rising sun. And grass, endless seas of grass. Here was the vision splendid: Nat Buchanan's grass castle. Gurindji country. And my country, Australia.' This is big country, the outbac ...Show more
Shearers by Evan McHugh
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
The story of Australia, told from the woolsheds. 'For much of its history Australia has been described as riding on the sheep's back . . . but if the country rode on anyone's back, it was on the aching, creaking, flexing spines of Australian shearers.' Armed with their blades, a sense of adventure and ...Show more
The Drovers : Stories Behind the Heroes of Our Stock Routes by Evan McHugh
$32.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know.' From the High Country to the Outback, there are extraordinary stories of the men and women who have travelled across Australia behind mobs of cattle, sheep and horses. These quiet achievers, of every race and creed, forged an Australia ...Show more
The Shearers by Evan McHugh
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"For much of its history Australia has been described as riding on the sheep's back . . . but if the country rode on anyone's back, it was on the aching, creaking, flexing spines of Australian shearers.' Armed with their blades, a sense of adventure and a relentless work ethic, shearers have been a fund ...Show more
The Stockmen: The Making of An Australian Legend by Evan McHugh
$60.00 NZD
Category: History
Working in some of the world's most challenging natural landscapes with beasts from tame to totally wild, the stockman speaks to something within the soul of every Australian. Evan McHugh, one of Australia's foremost chroniclers of the outback and the bush, presents the fascinating history of the stockm ...Show more
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