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'This is big country, the outback, home to the largest cattle and sheep stations in the world. Yet as these properties are closed to visitors, few of us know what goes on behind the farm gate. So what's life really like when next door is 500 kilometres away, and mustering livestock in their tens of thousands, backbreaking physical labour, and dealing with extreme heat and long hours is all in a day's work? And why would these tough stockmen and women not have it any other way?
Bestselling author Evan McHugh gets behind the wheel of his four-wheel drive to find out. Given special access to these properties, Evan goes behind the scenes at Adria Downs in the dead heart of Central Australia, helps drove cattle from the air at Wave Hill and gets a lesson in trapping dingoes at the remote Commonwealth Hill station. Following in the footsteps of the pioneering greats, Evan reveals the fascinating history of these outback stations, and what it takes to work on one today.' (Penguin website)
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Non-Fiction
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 1 September 2012; (p. 30) The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 September 2012; (p. 33)
— Review of Outback Stations 2012 single work autobiography -
Giant Stations of the Outback
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 August 2012; (p. 26)
— Review of Outback Stations 2012 single work autobiography
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Giant Stations of the Outback
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 August 2012; (p. 26)
— Review of Outback Stations 2012 single work autobiography -
Non-Fiction
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 1 September 2012; (p. 30) The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 September 2012; (p. 33)
— Review of Outback Stations 2012 single work autobiography
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