Boards, Blades and Barebellies. Shearing sheep in the South Island

Boards, Blades and Barebellies.

Softcover, faded spine

Published by Random House New Zealand Ltd

This is a book about blade shearers and stories of shearing sheep in the South Island of New Zealand. "[. . .] the author has painstakingly collected stories, songs, poems, recipes and legends and has woven them together to create a living record of the conditions, the equipment, the bosses, the feats of endurance, the tales of adventure, the legends of tallies and the characters whose lives have become legend." - from blurb on rear wrapper.

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