This is an auction for OPEN COUNTRY MUSTER by Jim Henderson.

"Few radio programmes have so avid a following that they generate a book reproducing their content, yet this is not the first but the fifth collection of material culled by Jim Henderson from his ever popular NZBC programme, "Open Country". The four preceding books have had to be reprinted, such is the demand for them. So here we have Open Country Muster, following Open Country (1965), Return to Open Country (1967), Open Country Calling (1969), and Our Open Country (1971). As before, the variety of topics is astonishing: to name only a few of them, there's snow-raking for starving sheep; Chinese gold miners; horses galore; swaggers and schoolteachers; giant kauris and pesky bantam fowls; a moonshine whisky-still; the Tarawera disaster; life in a Forest Service lookout - and in a lighthouse; rural bakeries and cheese factories. To cut it short - a vivid lively tapestry woven from the strong bright threads of New Zealand country life. Smell the wood smoke, hear the birds sing - and the gossips gossip! The flavour is authentic. Few if any of the contributors would claim to be professional writers. For the most part they are countrymen and countrywomen who listened to "Open Country" at 1pm every Sunday of the year, and decided to offer Mr Henderson their own remembrances."

Hardback

Paperback 1976.

266 pages.

Illustrations throughout.

A previous owner's name has been clipped from the flyleaf.

Otherwise, 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.

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