Wool Away, Boy

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: WILLIAM HEINEMAn
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2016
Edition: First Edition

Description: 308 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A firsthand account of the shearing sheds of the 1950s and 1960s. The son of a shearer, Alan Blunt spent his teenage years in the woolsheds. As his father labored, Alan would imagine himself opening the batting for Australia or boxing for the world middleweight championship, only to be startled out of his daydream with a cry of: "Wool away, boy. Wake up!" In this colorful memoir Alan chronicles all the larger-than-life personalities he met: the misfits, romantics, larrikins, and psychopaths. From the cooks who ruled the sheds those solitary, often crazy men who could make or break a teams stay to the gun shearers and maverick managers. With an irrepressible wit, he captures the voices of the men he worked with and brings to life a golden era of shearing."

ISBN: 9780143780366