Author(s): Meg Vivers

History & Studies - General | Queensland

This is the story of two very different men - an Aboriginal stockman, Mick Lynch, and a station manager, Tom Atkinson - whose lives touched for a period during the first half of the 20th century on a cattle station in southern Queensland.
'There are very few works in Australian history that detail the relationship between black and white – Aborigine and European – in Australia from a personal perspective. Mick and the Manager is one such story that redresses the balance. Mick Lynch (c. 1888–1961) was a Kamilaroi man who had to find an accommodation between his own detribalising world and the new European world in the post conflict/contact stage of interaction. Tom Atkinson (1910–1991) was the descendant of English gold-rush immigrants – a city boy who trained as a jackaroo and became a station manager. Their worlds intersected and bonded in the 1940s–1960s on Kindon Station in brigalow scrub country halfway between Goondiwindi and Millmerran. The story of their relationship – the quiet respect of two accomplished bushmen for each other – is told by Tom’s daughter in alternating chapters of traditional history and biographical cameos of Mick and Tom. It is interlaced with the author’s evocative reminiscences of growing up in the bush in which past and present form a single consciousness and throw light on each of the central characters.' (Review by Professor Maurice French)

Good condition overall. Light scuffing on cover, tanning on outside page edges.