IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE - LIFE ON A REMOTE STATION

His smile was big enough to light the universe.  He lay in an extended plaster bed which engulfed his body but obviously not his spirit.  'I'm big bad John,' he chuckled.

A city girl with dreams of the country, eighteen-year-old Terry Augustus was training to be a nurse at St Vincent's Hospital when she met John Underwood, a young, born and bred cattleman.  Flat on his back in Ward 3, nursing a serious spinal injury sustained while mustering cattle, John was itching to get home.  And home he finally went, to his family's cattle station, Inverway, up in the Northern Territory.  He promised Terry he'd write.  A postcard arrived a week later.

After five long years of writing letters, John and Terry married and moved to their new home - a tent and a newly drilled bore in the middle of nowhere.  Their love for each other was only matched by their love for this 'last frontier' in the heart of the Territory, where cattle are worked and mustered in the Dry when the grasses have hayed, and where the rains, when they come, fill the billabongs and creeks and bring new life to the land.

Modern-day pioneers, John and Terry built their station from scratch and raised and educated a new generation of Underwoods there.  Times were tough and there was heartbreak, danger and struggle, but the power of love and the strength of family ties helped them overcome every obstacle.

This is their story.  It's a story of beating the odds, told with warmth and a genuine knowledge of the Outback and its people, and the issued they face today.  It's a real story of the Territory, and is as vast, dramatic and inspiring as the land that lies at the heart of this unforgettable book.

This large 284 page hardcover is illustrated with black and white photographs.  This book is ex-library and as such has all the usual stamps and stickers, however there are no external markings.  The dustjacket has some creases to edges and there is heavy shelfwear to bottom edge of hardcover.  Internally there is light browning to page edges due to age.  There are some light yellow/brown marks to a small number of pages, a small asterix next to one line and a little damage (only measured half a cm) to top edge of six or so pages which looks as though it was caused by paper clip.  There is a "great reading" notation inside back cover also.  A wonderful read!

This is a large heavy book and overseas customers should email me for a postage quote before bidding. 

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