Moleskin Midas by Tom Ronan

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Dust jacket has creasing at edges and at spine, now enclosed in protective cover.

When he was twelve years old, Tony Yates was exchanged by his drunken, ex-convict father for a hind quarter of stolen beef, an Aboriginal servant and an old horse. From this ignominious beginning, he became one of Queensland's last cattle kings.

Moleskin Midas tells the story of his transition from mean, grubby little cattle-duffer who began with nothing yet died to one of the wealthiest pastoralists in Queensland. This novel was first published in 1956.