The New Ringer by Roland Breckwoldt

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Bend to front cover right tail corner. Interior and binding are still excellent.

It's 1960. He is not yet sixteen, and the unworldly Roland Breckwoldt is leaving his home on the semi-agricultural fringes of Sydney to work as a stockman on the vast cattle stations of the Gulf Country of North Queensland.

A more unlikely stockman you would not find. Born in an internment camp in Central Victoria, his family came to Australia from Germany via Shanghai. But it was out mustering on horseback and living in remote bush camps with characters as eccentric as any in outback Australia that Roland learnt about the world and discovered his place in it.

Full of youthful stumbles and told with great freshness and gentle humour, this beautifully written coming-of-age story is a nostalgic and evocative reminder of a disappearing way of life.