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Main Title: What do you do with them on Sundays? : Working the untamed country of the 1950s / H.S. Kent. Book Cover
Author: Kent, H. S. (Harold Stewart) -2005
Imprint: Sydney : ABC Books, 2005.
Collation: x, 209 p. : ill., portraits, pbk ; 21 cm.
Subject: Kent, H. S. (Harold Stewart) -2005.
Cattle drives
Drovers and droving
Autobiography
ISBN: 0733315674 (pbk.)
Notes:
Banjo didn't get it quite right, but then again, Banjo probably had never been a drover. So begins this gritty account of one of the most demanding jobs in the outback - that of a drover. The average working day was eighteen hours, and they worked seven days a week, often for up to eight months at a time. These men were out in all sorts of weather, with no shelter, and as the swags needed to be kept small, they would sleep on the ground with only a blanket or two to protect them. By day they were plagued by flies, at night the mozzies would take over. Nutrition was poor, and drovers often suffered from 'Barcoo rot' - wounds that would not heal. What Do You Do With Them On Sundays is a fascinating window into a world that no longer exists, and an important part of our cultural history.
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