A Way of Life

The author, Alec Rainey, who is English, after training in cattle management with the 'gauchos' in Argentina, emigrated to Australia in 1966 to work as a jackeroo on a vast cattle station in the Northern Territory, in the Barkly Tableland. There he camped out rounding-up cattle on horseback and branding calves for seven months. And he continued this way of life in succeeding years - on and off - in the Kimberley (N.T.) until 1974. In the camp, he made friends with some of his Aborigine co-workers, exchanging music with them. He played the Flamenco guitar. They sang songs and told him stories of the Dreamtime. They also taught him the art of fashioning stone spearheads and other skills related to survival (like finding wild honey and making fire). He has used extensive notes he took at the time to write this book, which is an account of those years.

ISBN 1849630038   DEWEY 994.06092 ISBN13 9781849630030 (What's this?)   DEWEY edition DC22 Publisher Austin & Macauley Publishers   Pages 281 Imprint Austin & Macauley Publishers   Published in London Format Paperback   Academic level General Publication date 29 Jan 2010

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