A huge snake takes refuge under the body of a
napping grandfather. A sixteen year old girl keeps three hundred head of cattle
together for a couple of weeks without loosing a beast. A young Aboriginal boy
witnesses a man being thrown off a train onto a remote railway siding for being
Jewish. Two trackers lead a police party deep into the desert to apprehend a
murderer and rescue a young, abducted woman. From station life to dusty outback
towns, Clarrie Cameron recreates the campfire yarns of his past on the page by
deftly weaving together anecdote, wit and allegory. He captures the
peculiarities and contradictions of human nature which readers all over the
world will instantly recognise.
