The New Ringer (Paperback)

Roland Breckwoldt

ISBN 10: 1761067834 / ISBN 13: 9781761067839

Published by Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2022

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Paperback. 'We can give you a start. You will need a six foot by four foot piece of canvas and blanket. If you stay for three months we will refund your fare. You will need to fly TAA out of Cloncurry and advise me your date of arrival.' And so began the adventures and misadventures of young Roland Breckwoldt. It was 1960. He was not yet sixteen, and the unworldly Roland was leaving his home on the semi-agricultural fringes of Sydney to work as a stockman on the vast cattle stations of the Gulf Country of North Queensland. A more unlikely stockman you would not find. Born in an internment camp in Central Victoria, his family had come to Australia from Germany via Shanghai. But it was out mustering on horseback and living in remote bush camps with characters as eccentric as any in outback Australia that Roland learnt about the world and discovered his place in it. Full of youthful stumbles and told with great freshness and gentle humour, this beautifully written coming of age story is a nostalgic and evocative reminder of a disappearing way of life. A shy young man from the suburban outskirts takes himself to Gulf Country on a 1960s boys own adventure that changes his life forever Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The New Ringer (Paperback)
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin, Sydney
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1761067834
• ISBN 13: 9781761067839
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

A shy young man from the suburban outskirts takes himself to Gulf Country on a 1960s boys own adventure that changes his life forever

'A beautifully written - yet stunningly different - memoir of a young misfit. Absolutely loved it.' - Ray Martin

'We can give you a start. You will need a six foot by four foot piece of canvas and blanket. If you stay for three months we will refund your fare. You will need to fly TAA out of Cloncurry and advise me your date of arrival.'

And so began the adventures and misadventures of young Roland Breckwoldt. It was 1960. He was not yet sixteen, and the unworldly Roland was leaving his home on the semi-agricultural fringes of Sydney to work as a stockman on the vast cattle stations of the Gulf Country of North Queensland.

A more unlikely stockman you would not find. Born in an internment camp in Central Victoria, his family had come to Australia from Germany via Shanghai. But it was out mustering on horseback and living in remote bush camps with characters as eccentric as any in outback Australia that Roland learnt about the world and discovered his place in it.

Full of youthful stumbles and told with great freshness and gentle humour, this beautifully written coming of age story is a nostalgic and evocative reminder of a disappearing way of life.

About the Author

Roland Breckwoldt became a leading advisor on agriculture and the environment. He was made a Fellow of the University of New England and has been an Honorary Lecturer in the Fenner School for Environment and Society and a Visiting Fellow in Human Science at the Australian National University. He is the author of highly acclaimed books including Wildlife in the Home Paddock and A Very Elegant Animal: the dingo, and twice the winner of the Royal Zoological Society's Whitely Medal. He is a widely respected horseman.