{"product_id":"9780733626838","title":"The Brumby Mare: And other recollections of a Queensland bushman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Brumby Mare\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging collection of reminiscences about traditional Queensland stockmen and bush workers in the 1950s and 1960s, before the days of motorbikes and helicopters.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrian Taylor knows and loves his country and his stories ring with the authority of experience. Some of the incidents he describes are laugh-aloud funny, some heart-stopping and some very moving. He is a close, thoughtful and warm-hearted observer ? of people, of wild and working animals and of the country that sustains them. \u003ci\u003eThe Brumby Mare\u003c\/i\u003e is sure to evoke nostalgia in bush folk and for city readers it will bring the old world of the outback and stockman to life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA quintessential Australian bushman, Brian Taylor has spent most of his life on the land. Working as a drover, a stockman, a fencer, a shearer and a saddler, he has gathered a lifetime of stories over the years as he travelled way out past the Barcoo, along dusty plains and beside dry creek beds under the endless southern sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso available, together with \u003ci\u003eThe Moonlight Stallion\u003c\/i\u003e, as the single volume \u003ci\u003eA Swag Of Memories: Australian Bush Stories\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Australia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47067641577712,"sku":"9780733626838","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780733626838_p0.jpg?v=1763626341","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780733626838","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}