Beyond the Bitumen and Bush Stories True Australian Tales (Two Books in One) by W A Winter-Irving

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned. Signed by previous owner.

Two books in one: Beyond the Bitumen and Bush Stories both by W A Winter-Irving

Beyond the Bitumen is a racy narrative of W A Winter-Irving's early life in the Victorian countryside and on the huge cattle and sheep properties in Queensland. With affectionate detail, Winter-Irving evokes the feeling of the 1920s and 1930s, a time towards the end of Australia's pastoral era, with its splendid old homes, go-for-broke land deals and individualistic men and women.

In Bush Stories, Winter-Irving presents a collection of bush lore gleaned from a lifetime of first-hand experience. A host of intriguing characters and anecdotes.

W A Winter-Irving was a fourth-generation Australian of Scottish descent. At one time, his family were the second-largest pastoral holders in Victoria.