A Youth Not Wasted

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publisher Place: New South Wales
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: First Edition

Description: 376 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. The only exception is a small mark to cover from an old price sticker.

Publishers Description: ‘People who truly live in the outback listen to it. What they hear, I do not know ... What the country says is beyond words.In the early 1950s, Australia was riding on the sheeps back and no-one doubted the wisdom of making a life in the wool industry, certainly not sixteen-year-old Ian Parkes.Having grown up with his grandfathers stories about the bush, he was eager to earn his way on sheep stations in the Australian outback. But he had no idea that the country would creep inside him and take root.Tough yet tender, funny one moment, poignant the next, this is the story of a life lived on the land and for the land. It was a time when a young lad starting out might work side-by-side with Aboriginal stockmen, when a big social event was a day at the races, followed by a game of two-up. And a time when a young man might discover a love of books, camped out under the stars.

ISBN: 9780732295349