Icing On The Damper: Life Story Of A Family In The Outback

Local Description

1995. First edition. A very good copy.

Description

This is the real life story of the Outback that will make you pround to be Australian. The Mahood family are battlers who never ask for somthing for nothing and who never give up. Join the Mahood's in the desert at Mongrel Downs' somewhere West of Alice Springs. Or at the Cattle camp in Central Queensland's tropical Brahman bull country complete with ticks, fleas, sandflies and Mosquitoes like German divebombers. Have a fat goanna for Christmas dinner at the Cattle Camp, but there's no dinner until you've dug the 4 wheel drive out of the spewey soil, pulled Mad Cow out of the bog and mustered and branded 80 Cleanskin cows.

Author description

A journalist from Perth, Western Australia, Marie Mahood met her husband Joe Mahood while working at Victoria River Downs in the Northern Territory. Together they built up the cattle station Mongrel Downs in the Tanami Desert in the Northern Territory and later a station in central Queensland, which she continued to work after her husband’s death in a helicopter accident. A public speaker on her life in the Australian bush, Mahood wrote memoirs, novels and newspaper columns about the outback.