Book description
The youngest in a family of five, Milton Jones grew up on large
properties in the outback. His father was a farm manager and so his
early life was a world away from that of city kids. Milton left school
in Queensland in his mid-teens and moved back to the Northern Territory.
Mustering was in his blood and so his first job was as a bullcatcher.
Milton Jones is a man of his environment; tough and hardworking with a
firm opinion on most things that he isn't afraid to share. How he bought
Coolibah Station in 1988 in cash, and the way he has built up his
country empire, is just one element of his story. For Jones, wrangling
crocs, mustering cattle, fighting bush fires, and riding rodeo are the
norm. Over 1000 kilometres from nearest city - Darwin - his life is
lived on horseback, his days ruled by the sunlight. With the help of a
seasonal workforce, plus his 42 choppers and dozen or so horses, Jones'
business musters cattle from across the territory. THE MAN FROM COOLIBAH
shows us what it is like to live in the never never and brings the
outback vividly to life. For the men and women in Jones' world things
might be changing but the harshness and beauty of the land remains.
Milton Jones is a self-made success from the Northern Territory, who
started work in the early 1980s as a bullcatcher on remote inland cattle
stations before buying Coolibah Station in 1988. He is now the sole
owner of a helicopter business that specialises in aerial mustering,
government work and tourism flights over Nitmiluk (Katherine) Gorge and
Kakadu. James Knight, a country boy himself raised in the New South
Wales town of Gunnedah, is an award-winning television reporter and
bestselling author of biographies, whose career over the last decade has
spanned Sydney metropolitan radio, press and television.
