Cattleman
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Set against the vast, sun-scorched landscapes of outback Australia, Cattleman by R.S. Porteous is a sweeping tale of grit, ambition, and survival that won the prestigious £1000 Brisbane Courier-Mail Queensland Centenary Award — a prize that announced Porteous as a major voice in Australian frontier fiction. The novel chronicles the rugged life of a cattleman carving out an existence in the unforgiving Australian bush, navigating the brutal demands of the land, the complexities of human relationships, and the relentless passage of time that transforms both men and country alike. Porteous writes with an unflinching authority born of intimate knowledge of the outback, rendering the landscape not merely as backdrop but as a living, breathing force that shapes every character it touches. Thematically rich, Cattleman argues that identity in colonial Australia was forged not in cities or drawing rooms, but in dust, drought, and defiance. Porteous's prose is muscular yet evocative, capturing a world that is rapidly disappearing even as his characters fight to hold it together — leaving the reader to wonder whether the land ultimately belongs to the men who work it, or whether it is the men who belong to the land.
Author: R. S. Porteous
Format: Hardback
Published: 1962, Australasian Publishing Company in association with George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Set against the vast, sun-scorched landscapes of outback Australia, Cattleman by R.S. Porteous is a sweeping tale of grit, ambition, and survival that won the prestigious £1000 Brisbane Courier-Mail Queensland Centenary Award — a prize that announced Porteous as a major voice in Australian frontier fiction. The novel chronicles the rugged life of a cattleman carving out an existence in the unforgiving Australian bush, navigating the brutal demands of the land, the complexities of human relationships, and the relentless passage of time that transforms both men and country alike. Porteous writes with an unflinching authority born of intimate knowledge of the outback, rendering the landscape not merely as backdrop but as a living, breathing force that shapes every character it touches. Thematically rich, Cattleman argues that identity in colonial Australia was forged not in cities or drawing rooms, but in dust, drought, and defiance. Porteous's prose is muscular yet evocative, capturing a world that is rapidly disappearing even as his characters fight to hold it together — leaving the reader to wonder whether the land ultimately belongs to the men who work it, or whether it is the men who belong to the land.