Walk a Mile in My Shoes by Tom Collins

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker.

This is the inspiring boot and all story of a Queensland bush pioneer who flourished against all the odds.

Tom Collins was born in 1912, and by the age of five, he had his first job as a horse tailer for his father's itinerant draught-horse team.

As a teenager, he was paralyzed for years after a horse riding accident but recovered to become an axeman, a banana- grower, a Harley Davidson rider, a dunny-can carter, a grader- driver, a dairy worker, a barber and the proud owner of a caravan, beauty salon in Central Queensland.

From brigalow ring-bark and sideshow boxer in the Great Depression to ladies hairdresser, maker of fairy floss and toffee apples, auctioneer, country real estate developer and racehorse breeder, Tom Collins was by instinct an entrepreneurial go-getter and a restless, nomadic dreamer.

He fought his way from the grinding poverty of his childhood and became the very symbol of a Queensland self-made man. (back cover)