Book description
This book of bush tales vividly evokes an era now gone, when people
struggled in isolation to tame the land and when camaraderie and
mateship were everything.
Young Brian Taylor was a ringer on Queensland cattle stations some
fifty-five years ago. He worked on huge properties where the big mobs
used to run and many of the people he met there had a larger-than-life
quality. There was Dangerous Dan Smith, a hard, self-reliant man who
wrote bush poetry; Father Peter, a gentle parish priest and occasional
hero; and Charlie Gibson, an aboriginal stockman utterly at home in his
own country. And then there was the landscape - the plains and rivers
and mountains - that shaped the lives of them all.
The Moonlight Stallion
is Brian Taylor's second collection of reminiscences about a vanishing
way of life in outback Australia - about people, wild and working
animals, and country. Readers of THE BRUMBY MARE have been clamouring
for more and new readers, whether from the bush or the city, will be
moved to laughter and to tears by these heartfelt 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.
Also available, together with THE BRUMBY MARE, 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.
