Gather No Moss
By P. R. Heydon
Price: AU$21.95
ISBN: 0-85905-232-X
Number of Pages: 175
Gather No Moss is the autobiography of William Linklater, alias Billy Miller, who ran away from his Adelaide home and in the 1880s 'went bush' and never looked back. He was in love with Romance, Adventure and a particular place, as true pioneers must be: the place was northern Australia at a time when the white man was still a phenomenon on the scene.
Billy Miller has written an autobiography in which the Territory and its rough-hewn individualists are chief characters. He was himself a most unusual man; he was a stockman who could read and write; a cattleman who knew Latin; a drover who kept his courage high by thinking of Homer's heroes. He was a gold miner, and a pearler. And he writes as if he was in the 1880s just last week.
More, he was a natural observer, and the scenes he witnessed were as bizarre and brightly-coloured as any in America's Wild West. This book will appeal to those who are vitally interested in Australiana, and to those who think they are not - that is, if they like to laugh aloud while reading. For this is a funny book, with no padding, as stuffed with good stories as a plum pudding is with raisins. Those who feel early Australian days lacked the glamour of other countries' beginnings should let Gather No Moss change their minds.
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