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Moore, Peter, 1931-

My droving days : life on the long paddock / Peter Moore & Shirley Moore. - Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2012. - 232 p. : ill, 1 map ; 21 cm.

Peter Moore left the city behind in 1952 to become part of a dying breed - a long distance drover. In My Droving Days we follow his progress through the 1950s as he rubs shoulders with the larger-than-life characters - and their dogs and horses - who trekked along the outback stock routes of western Queensland and New South Wales. Meet the world's worst cattle dog and Charlie who blows up a laden outside toilet (and its contents) sky high; thrill to the high drama of a night rush (stampede); catch a poddy dodger in the act and live to tell the tale; literally get caught by a beast's horns; take on a brown snake while collecting wild duck eggs or shoot a few roos to feed the twenty-seven dogs in the team. My Droving Days captures the real taste of the outback and the vanishing world of the overlanders, bulldust and all.

ISBN: 9781742379876 (pbk) 1742379877 (pbk)

Subjects--Personal Names:
Moore, Peter, 1931-

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Country life--Australia--Biography.
Drovers--Australia--Biography.

Dewey Class. No.: 636.0092