The new ringer / Roland Breckwoldt
- Bib ID:
- 8664038
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Breckwoldt, Roland, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
- Thumbnail
- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia, State Library of New South Wales
- Description:
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- 2022
- Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2022
- ©2022
- 1 online resource : plates, portraits, 1 map.
- ISBN:
- 9781761064654
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access : Available online.
- Summary:
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"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."--Publisher.
- Notes:
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- 'From Sydney to the Gulf country'--front cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-264) and glossary.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 28, 2023)
- Subject:
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- Breckwoldt, Roland, 1944-
- Breckwoldt, Rowland, 1944-
- Children of immigrants -- Anecdotes
- Children of immigrants -- Australia -- Biography
- Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Australia -- Queensland
- Horsemen and horsewomen -- Australia -- Queensland -- Biography
- Horsemen and horsewomen -- Queensland -- Biography
- Livestock workers -- Queensland -- Biography
- Ranchers -- Australia -- Queensland -- Biography
- Ranchers -- Queensland -- Biography
- Queensland
- Australian
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2022
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