Back of Beyond: Hugh Tindall's stories of a shearing life in outback Australia

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Hugh Tindall is an ordinary man who has lived through extraordinary times in outback Queensland. From a poor man's selection on the Diamantina in 1928 to owning six large stations with his family, from shearing his first 100 sheep a day at the age of sixteen to organising sheds in the long-running 1956 shearers' strike, Hugh's story is part of a turbulent time in the outback, whose history he is passionate about. Told in his own voice, it is an honest account of life in isolated western and central Queensland, where the tough survived or died.

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Freda Marnie Nicholls lives and works on her husband's family farm in Gundagai in southern New South Wales and has worked as a rural journalist for fourteen years. She has had the pleasure of interviewing many interesting people in her career and believes that everyone has a story. This is her second book.