Beyond the Bitumen by W A Winter-Irving

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Foxing to top foredge. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are still excellent.

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.

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.