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Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Jackaroo : A Memoir
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'In 1967, fresh from boarding school humiliations, and having lost his father to alcoholism, gangly teen Michael Thornton was packed off to a tough sheep and cattle station to work as a jackaroo. He was to learn the wool trade from the lamb up, under a boss legendary for working his farmhands in an almost military regimen. In Jackaroo, Thornton recalls his years learning the ropes in an era when farm work was still done on horseback. Engaging, candid and often funny, his memoir reveals the hard working lives of the unsung all-rounders of the country.' Source: Libraries Australia (Sighted 18/07/2011).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Viking , 2011 .
      Extent: 277p.
      ISBN: 9780670075782 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

Non-Fiction Reviews Bruce McMahon , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 6 - 7 August 2011; (p. 25)

— Review of Jackaroo : A Memoir Michael Thornton , 2011 single work autobiography
The Country within a Country Ross Fitzgerald , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30 -31 July 2011; (p. 24-25)

— Review of Jackaroo : A Memoir Michael Thornton , 2011 single work autobiography
Off the Shelf : Memoir Dianne Dempsey , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 16 July 2011; (p. 30)

— Review of Jackaroo : A Memoir Michael Thornton , 2011 single work autobiography
Off the Shelf : Memoir Dianne Dempsey , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 16 July 2011; (p. 30)

— Review of Jackaroo : A Memoir Michael Thornton , 2011 single work autobiography
The Country within a Country Ross Fitzgerald , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30 -31 July 2011; (p. 24-25)

— Review of Jackaroo : A Memoir Michael Thornton , 2011 single work autobiography
Non-Fiction Reviews Bruce McMahon , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 6 - 7 August 2011; (p. 25)

— Review of Jackaroo : A Memoir Michael Thornton , 2011 single work autobiography
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