Old Days, Old Ways: Stories from My Radio Days in the Bush by Alex Nicol

Old Days, Old Ways: Stories from My Radio Days in the Bush by Alex Nicol

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SKU TBM9781760528492
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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781760528492
Author: Alex Nicol
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Place: Crows Nest NSW
Year: 2019
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272 pages
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Tiny mark on inside front cover and synopsis page.

Alex Nicol takes us back to the old days in the bush, when booking into a country pub was likely to turn into an adventure and when radio was the glue that held far-flung communities together.

Full of colourful characters and making do with what's at hand, these stories are classically Australian. There are the wartime mates who helped each other build farms on their soldier settler blocks, and the 'Adelady' keeping the farm running after her husband died. There is the young woman who ran down water buffalo in the Northern Territory, and Possum, the legendary bush hermit who lived off the land on his own for 60 years, quietly doing jobs for farmers without being asked. There is the neighbour caught 'fishing' in the chook yard with a long line and a small hook baited with bread, and the little girl who swallowed a sapphire she found on the side of the road.

With a bush yarn, it's all about how you tell it. As the voice of rural Australia for over two decades on ABC radio, Alex Nicol can tell a yarn with a punchline that will keep you grinning for the rest of the day. (back cover)

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