This is an auction for SWAGGER COUNTRY by Jim Henderson.

"Jim Henderson spent five years collecting material on the swag-men of the past for this book. Included are stories of swaggers who were women or from foreign parts."

From the NZ Herald, 19 July 2005:

"Jim Henderson, MBE. Author, broadcaster, historian. Died aged 86. For 14 years from 1961 to 1974, Jim Henderson originated, edited and presented a widely popular radio programme called Open Country. Broadcast around Sunday lunchtime on National Radio, the programme mirrored its originator's own love of rural life. Henderson gathered scripts from people all over the country. He reckoned a good half of the contributors had never written before but wanted to record worthwhile moments in their lives. Experiences in forests, on remote farms, in the hills or by a country stream. Some devotees of the programme described it as "an invaluable bridge between town and country". Henderson put a selection from 14 years of broadcasts into books. When the programme stopped in 1974, listeners' protests were directed as high as the Prime Minister. But the reasons given, including diminishing contributions and a certain sameness creeping in, seemed sound enough at the time. And by then a time-proven radio programme was facing irresistible competition from television's Country Calendar and its ability to show as well as tell. Jim Henderson, a prolific broadcaster and documentary maker, also wrote roughly a score of books on a wide selection of New Zealand history and rural subjects, including two war histories. Serving as a gunner in the Middle East with the 2nd NZ Expeditionary Force, he was left for dead in the desert after a German attack killed his gun crew mates at Sidi Rezegh in 1941..."

Paperback 1982.

201 pages.

Very good condition.

The cost of shipping is $4.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

Payment within seven days, please.