Sixty Thousand on the Hoof by Peter Newton. 1975 First Edition.
Sixty Thousand on the Hoof by Peter Newton.
Publisher: A H & A W Reed, Wellington, 1975 First Edition.
Very good hardback with jacket; light compression to base of spine, minor marks, rubbing to edges, no inscriptions, small bookseller's label inside front board, binding firm, pages very good. Jacket has light edge-wear and fading to spine.
Black and White Photographs, illustrations, maps, 260 Pages.
Popular and prolific writer and historian on NZ's major high country stations concluded his regional study of this topic with this fourth book. It covers the South Island area from mid-Canterbury's Rangitata River to Southland, including Westland and Otago. The author lists 59 stations in that area and examines the history, development, existing circumstances and stocking policies from the view point of one who is fully familiar, from practical experience, with high country life and work. His book concludes with Mount Linton Station, in western Southland, the largest in NZ then running 60,000 sheep, from which the title is taken
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