Book description
In The Shadows of Horses, Mike Keenan shares the inside story of what
life is like on the land for today's farmers - the isolation, the agony
of drought and the uncertainty about the future. Mike's first book, The
Horses too are Gone, only told a small part of his personal story. Now,
through his memoir of growing up on the family property, Myall Plains,
and later running it, he explores many aspects of the Australian bush
and its way of life that are so close to his heart, along the way
telling some terrific bush yarns as well as hair-raising anecdotes from
his years on the bush racing circuit. Ultimately this book is about
Mike's own passion for - and despair over - life on the land, but he
also speaks for every farmer who is doing it tough. Mike Keenan is a
successful author and a fifth-generation farmer. His first book, The
Horses too are Gone, was the true story of his fight to save his cattle
and his farm from drought. The Shadows of Horses is his fifth book.
