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New Holland Publishers, Published 1999. Paperback, 192 pp.; 21 cm; second printing (first published 1998); illustrated with 16 pages of black-and-white photographs, humorous text illustrations by John Strumfin, and a map.
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In Very Good condition. Pictorial paper covers with light bumping to edges and corners, mild shelf wear. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. [From back cover] At 15, Bob Flatt left his comfortable, middle class Sydney home to become a jackaroo and assistant station manager in Queensland's Gulf Country. Learning to ride horses, muster cattle and fix bores were just some of the day-to-day challenges Bob faced, as well as swimming with crocodiles, riding in rodeos, chasing cattle duffers and fighting floods and bushfires. Bull From the Bush is an hilarious account of a young man growing up in the outback in the 1950s. It tells of a world before technology took over, when each cattle station was its own self-contained community, drovers still roamed the land and the spirit of mateship was a matter of life and death. Bob Flatt brings to life many of his hair-raising adventures and the characters he met along the way. Contents: Preface; The Sweet Smell of Cows in the Morning; Outback and Beyond; In the Dust Again; Horses Can't Fly, Can They?; I've Heard of Loaves and Fishes; An Untimely Mudbath; Slipping the Slipper In; Drovers' Games; Strange Bedfellow; Rats, Big as Bloody Cats, Everywhere; I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas; A Crafty Bastard; Rawhide; Balls and All; From Here to Eternity; On the Road Again; We Get Our Own Back; Who's Who; Big Red; The End of an Era; The Day Mother's Face Fell Off; Mother Lost the Will to Speak; We Could Have Danced All Night; The Last Straw (Bore); Into the Bottomless Pit; Young Love, or Lust; Arrival at Kamileroi; Hey, They're Shooting at Us; One Dog, One Owner; I'll Have Mine with Tomato Sauce; Hold Me, Don't Ever Let Me Go; All That Dough; Face to Face; Speed Swimming; I Want to Lay Down My Head and Rest; What a Shirt of a Day; Riding an Angel; OP Rum, the Drink with Courage; A Prickly Situation; I Meet an Old Friend; Appendices (About the Properties, Lists of Equipment, Setting up Camp); Glossary.