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Title: | A Ringers Hands |
| ISBN: | 9781921920448 | |
| Andy Hughes | ||
| Price | $19.95  |
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| ebook | $9.99 |
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Synopsis
This is a true story. A Ringer’s Hands is an account of the year I spent working on an outback cattle station in the middle of the Northern Territory. I left Sydney as a City Boy with a ute, a swag, a red dog and a craving for adventure, I came back a real Australian ringer. My grandfather would talk for hours about his young life working on a large property in South Australia and for me it was too much to resist. I couldn’t wait to get out there and have a go. I spent most of 1987 at Murranji at the top end of the Tanami Desert.
I learnt how to ride rough horses, work crazy cattle and drive road trains. I went chopper mustering, barramundi fishing and I rode a steer at the Daly Waters Rodeo. I helped track down a suicide case and during a trip to town I was mistaken for the Kimberley Killer by cops with their weapons drawn.
This is the story of the time of my life, please enjoy.
Critique
I loved it. A bloody good read.
Max Cullen
Actor, Playwright and Author
A great read, a great story, and very Australian. It’s a great introduction to life in a Northern Territory cattle station for a green recruit.
Darrell Lewis
Author, The Muranji Track,
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