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Wool Away, Boy! by Blunt, Alan is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is Wool Away, Boy! about?
<b>A firsthand account of the shearing sheds of the 1950s and 60s.</b><br><br>The son of a shearer, Alan Blunt spent his teenage years in the woolsheds of the 1950s and 60s. As his father laboured, Alan would imagine himself opening the batting for Australia or boxing for the world middleweight championship, only to be startled out of his daydream with a cry of: ‘Wool away, boy. Wake up!’ <br><br>In this colourful memoir Alan chronicles all the larger-than-life personalities he met: the misfits,
Who reads Wool Away, Boy!?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Blunt, Alan
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Australia
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780143780366
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Biography, Memoirs
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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