Lunney Bob (10 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Gone Bush: Growing up Fast in the Top End This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Paperback. Trace of old price sticker on spine, else decent shape, binding sound, text clean. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 200 pp. This is the true story of Bob Lunney, who, as a seventeen-year-old, joined a droving team on one of the last epic long-distance cattle drives in Australia, when road-trains were beginning to make such treks obsolete. The story is drawn from notes scribbled in an old exercise book during the trip. The tale begins at Elliot, a store, police station and scattering of houses about 400 miles south of Darwin, in the Northern Territory of Australia. Lunney was on his way to Tennant Creek from Darwin, having been lured by the prospect of big money in the goldmines. He had hoped to save enough money in a few months to pay for his training as a pilot. But when the bus on which he was travelling stopped for a meal break, he met Les and Sandy Little. The Little brothers were drovers on their way up the Murranji Track to 'Willeroo Station', 299 miles north-east of Elliot. There they would pick up cattle to be driven to Queensland. Convinced by the Littles that the wild lifestyle of the Tennant Creek miners would separate him from his money faster than he could earn it, and inspired by the epic film The Overlanders, starring Chips Rafferty, the starry-eyed Lunney impulsively agreed to join the brothers. He was to find that life as a drover was a lot less comfortable and romantic than watching a movie. What followed was a grinding round trip of 920 miles, 290 miles from Elliot to 'Willeroo' up the Murranji, then 630 miles back down the track and across to 'Rocklands', near Camooweal, Queensland. The cattle averaged only 8 miles a day for the journey, at only 6 miles a day during the first half. Lunney learnt within two days that he was neither the horseman nor the fighter that he thought he was, and the journey became a rite of passage, during which he grew up through bitter experience. This story is not a bald recitation of facts, figures and distances, or a monotonous travelogue, or a litany of topography, botany, statistics, agronomy, geology and animal husbandry, though it contains elements of all of these. Rather, it is the well-told tale of a true-life adventure, with all of the classic elements of drama, conflict, danger, humour and pathos, as seen through the eyes of the youthful Lunney. The story is also uniquely Australian, and tells of a lifestyle which is now only part of our memory. Lunney says that although he does not regret having made the journey which helped mould him from boy to man, it was his first such trip and definitely his last.…

Condition: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. 1st ed. A tidy copy in tight binding. Used - Very Good. VG paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: Good - Some Wear. Some browning and marks on page edges.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Minor marks on page 1. Set on the South Alligator River in the Northern Territory, this book is the account of a boy's working adventure on an abandoned cattle run in the 1950s.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. Book conditions for volume 1 & volume 2. Fine condition. Text body clean. Spine intact. Book block clean all sides. Book boards clean front and back. Dust jacket in both books no tears. Overall an excellent and neat copies of books. Extra charges for oversea postage as the books weight is over 500grams. See photos for synopsis and more information on book.…

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 200 pages. A nice clean, straight, unmarked book, appears unread.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The book is a little worn. 303 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.