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Along My Way

by Harold Hunt ISBN: 9781925231298

Price: $40.60 Format: Paperback Postage: FREE Standard Postage In Stock in the Booktopia Distribution Centre, see below for details.

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Harold Hunt was born in 'The Bush', that is the Corner Country, in far western New South Wales. Horse and buggy were still the main mode of transport and, as a child during the Great Depression, he was fascinated by the mystery of the many swagmen who trod the dirt tracks.

His parents separated when he was young, and his half-caste Aboriginal mother raised eight children on her own. Somehow she kept the family together during a time of government dislocation of Aboriginal people 'for their own protection'.

He left school at the age of 14, working as a stockman with dreams of becoming a boss drover. But the lure of earning a steady income and the itinerant lifestyle of a shearer beckoned and was to be his occupation for the next 20 years.

By age 34, he was the father of four and a raging alcoholic, violent and causing suffering to those he loved. Then a chance meeting with some mates set him on the path to recovery through Alcoholics Anonymous, along with a move to Sydney. Always looking for new opportunities and challenges, he chanced upon a training course as a counsellor to alcoholics and other drug addicts. So began a career in the public service, with his determination to help others who were experiencing the hell he himself had survived.

At 87, Harold was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in recognition of his services to the community. This is an autobiography of an extraordinary life, during a period of dramatic social change in Australia.

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• ISBN : 9781925231298
• Format : Paperback
• Title : Along My Way

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• Condition: Brand new
• Author: Harold Hunt
• Book Title: Along My Way
• Language: English
• Format: Paperback
• Type: Paperback
• ISBN: 9781925231298
• UPC: 9781925231298

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