Book description
The Brumby Mare is an engaging collection of reminiscences
about traditional Queensland stockmen and bush workers in the 1950s
and 1960s, before the days of motorbikes and helicopters.
BRIAN TAYLOR knows and loves his country and his stories ring with the
authority of experience. Some of the incidents he describes are
laugh-aloud funny, some heart-stopping and some very moving. He is a
close, thoughtful and warm-hearted observer - of people, of wild and
working animals and of the country that sustains them. The Brumby Mare
is sure to evoke nostalgia in bush folk and for city readers it will
bring the old world of the outback and stockman to life.
A quintessential Australian bushman, BRIAN TAYLOR has spent most of his
life on the land. Working as a drover, a stockman, a fencer, a shearer
and a saddler, he has gathered a lifetime of stories over the years as
he travelled way out past the Barcoo, along dusty plains and beside dry
creek beds under the endless southern sky.
Also available, together with THE MOONLIGHT STALLION, as the single
volume A SWAG OF MEMORIES: Australian Bush Stories
. A quintessential Australian bushman, BRIAN TAYLOR has spent most of
his life on the land. Working as a drover, a stockman, a fencer, a
shearer and a saddler, he has gathered a lifetime of stories over the
years as he travelled way out past the Barcoo, along dusty plains and
beside dry creek beds under the endless southern sky.
