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Tough Outback, a Kiwi's stories of misadventure, mining, and mayhem. In 1989, Mike Bellamy set off for the remote town of Wiluna, on the edge of the Western Desert. Keen to make a buck from Australia's mining boom, the fledgling Kiwi soon realised he'd walked across... Read More
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Tough Outback

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Tough Outback, a Kiwi's stories of misadventure, mining, and mayhem.

In 1989, Mike Bellamy set off for the remote town of Wiluna, on the edge of the Western Desert. Keen to make a buck from Australia's mining boom, the fledgling Kiwi soon realised he'd walked across a frontier into a roughshod world where anyone trying to last longer than a desert sunrise had to watch their back, play by the rules, and keep their wits about them.

Bellamy's stories of dongas, dozers, and diggers offer a window back in time to a work-hard, play-hard land, where snakes, spiders, and flies were the least of one's worries. Welcome to the tough mining country of Western Australia.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781775542131

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 August 2022

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 409g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Mike Bellamy is a New Zealand author and earthworks contractor who lives in Taupo, New Zealand. His first book, Tough Country, was about the lives of loggers, hunters, scrub-cutters, fencers and bushmen in the New Zealand hinterland. Bellamy also spent 30 years in the mining country of Western Australia, which is the setting for his second book of yarns, Tough Outback.

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