Outback Legends of Jack Vitnell from Queensland to the Kimberley. This is a wild, buck-jumping, barroom-brawling kind of book. It sprawls like Australia's cattle stations through the heat, the dust, the flies and the loneliness of the Top End. It carries you into a world of poddy-dodgers and horse-thieves. It introduces you to Old Smokey, King of the Underworld in the Kimberley, Old Soapie's Lulu, Walmajari Susie and the savage spears of the munjons. Gun Ringer is a story of the old frontier where the young ringers rode hard and drank hard. A world where Aboriginal ringers were among the best horse-riders there were. A world where there were few white women and the men based their pride on their work with cattle and horses, their ability to fight and their mateship. Their only respite from work was when they went on a bender. In the end many of them succumbed as frail old men to Bosun Rum and a lonely grave. Critique: Geoff Allen's Gun Ringer reminds me of the macho-romanticism of Ernest Hemingway. It's a celebration of virility and wild adventure. Earnest post-structuralists want to debunk all that kind of thing now. But without these gung-ho, young ringers, Australia's northern frontier world would never have been conquered. This book is their horses' hoof prints in the sands of time. David Myers
Title: The Gun Ringer
ISBN Number: 1922109215
ISBN-13: 9781922109217
Location Published: Australia, Boolarong Press: 2013
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: New
Size: 23.0 x 16.5 x 1.2 cm
Kg: 1.00 Kg
Type: Book
Categories: Contemporary
Seller ID: 003973
Keywords: 9781922109217, australia, geoff allen, the gun ringer, the really good book shop
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