| Wool Away, Boy!: A Ripping Memoir of Life in the Shearing Sheds Contributor(s): Blunt, Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143780360 ISBN-13: 9780143780366 Publisher: William Heinemann Australia OUR PRICE: $30.56 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6" W x 9.1" (0.95 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A firsthand account of the shearing sheds of the 1950s and 1960s. The son of a shearer, Alan Blunt spent his teenage years in the woolsheds. As his father labored, Alan would imagine himself opening the batting for Australia or boxing for the world middleweight championship, only to be startled out of his daydream with a cry of: "Wool away, boy. Wake up " In this colorful memoir Alan chronicles all the larger-than-life personalities he met: the misfits, romantics, larrikins, and psychopaths. From the cooks who ruled the sheds--those solitary, often crazy men who could make or break a team's stay--to the gun shearers and maverick managers. With an irrepressible wit, he captures the voices of the men he worked with and brings to life a golden era of shearing. |