Deep of the Sky: An Essay in Ancestor Worship by Tom Ronan

Book Description

Secondhand. Fair condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Foxing to foredges, preliminary and last pages. Dust jacket is intact, with sunning and foxing on the covers. Now enclosed in protective cover.

First Australian edition.

Biography of Denis James Ronan (1859-1942), chronicling his life as a pioneering "swagman on horseback" in the rugged frontier landscapes of Australia's remote north. It traces the extreme hardships, unique characters, and hard-won wisdom of the men and women who shaped early outback Australia.

“During the first year in his new boots, Denis Ronin worked on farms, barges, and in smithies. But by the time he was sixteen he had his own horse and was acknowledged as one of the finest stock-riders in the business. His chosen life, working with cattle and horses, which he continued until he was seventy-three, took him all over the northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales, on the enormous cattle drives from the grazing lands to the towns.”