Roads in the Sky: The Life of Cattleman Sir Graham Mccamley by Jenny & Nick Mountstephen. SIGNED BY MCCAMLEY.

Publisher: Mountstephen Books, 2018, First Edition. SCARCE.

Near new hardback with jacket, binding firm, some minor bumping to edges, no owner inscriptions. Jacket has some light edge/shelf-wear.

"Roads In The Sky" is the engaging story of the life of Central Queensland cattleman Sir Graham McCamley, known to many as the cattle industry's "white knight". An extract of the biography from Page 75 talks about the day Sir Graham purchased the famous Tartarus stud. In 1954, at the age of 21, Graham took his next significant step. With his father, he inspected a property called Tartarus, two hours from Rockhampton. It was an 18,000-hectare block of scrub and brigalow, with 1500 head of cattle. And a river. The scrub land on Tartarus needed developing, Graham could see. The block had first been surveyed almost 100 years earlier by explorer Henry Horst Brown, who followed hard upon the Archers (of central Queensland exploring fame) in 1854. The property had three more owners between 1859 and 1954. It was purchased by Jarvis Collins in 1927 from the Public Curators Office for just £51, a bargain due to the infestation of prickly pear. Two days after Graham inspected the property, the then owners, the Logan brothers, accepted an offer of £28,000. I bought the property because I loved the river, the Isaac, and it adjoined Dad s property Kaiuroo, said Graham. 416 pages, illustrated.

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