A Youth Not Wasted: A Memoir by Ian Parkes

A Youth Not Wasted: A Memoir by Ian Parkes

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780732295349
Author: Ian Parkes
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Place: Sydney NSW
Year: 2012
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352 pages
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

In the early 1950s, Australia was riding on the sheep’s back, and no one doubted the wisdom of making a life in the wool industry, certainly not sixteen-year-old Ian Parkes.

Growing up with his grandfather’s 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 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. (front book flap)

Born in Perth in 1934, Ian Parkes left home at sixteen to work as a jackeroo on a merino stud in South Australia. He spent a year on a remote property near Broken Hill before returning to Western Australia, where he worked on various sheep stations inland from Carnarvon and Meekatharra.

At the age of twenty-one, after illness threatened his life, Ian reflected on where his real interests lay and much as he loved the outback, he decided he wanted to write. (back book flap)


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