viii, 156 pages 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
regular print
Contents
Foreword -- Into the outback -- First days at VRD -- Settling in -- Other jobs -- The end of the stock season -- Christmas and new year, 1948-49 -- Cold weather time, 1949 -- Trips around the station -- Marriage - September 1949 -- Into isolation -- Women's business -- Homestead jobs -- Improvements and routines -- Mustering & horses -- Living with the Aborigines -- Illness, injury and death among the Aborigines -- Getting meat -- Second pregnancy -- To Mistake Creek -- Back to VRD -- Things had changed -- "Bullocky Bill" and other characters -- Health scares -- The beginning of the galah sessions -- Learning from the Aborigines -- Stock camp cooking and the end of my truck -- Our last year at Sanford -- Leaving VRD -- Recipes of a bush cook