A huge snake takes refuge under the body of anapping grandfather. A sixteen year old girl keeps three hundred head of cattletogether for a couple of weeks without loosing a beast. A young Aboriginal boywitnesses a man being thrown off a train onto a remote railway siding for beingJewish. Two trackers lead a police party deep into the desert to apprehend amurderer and rescue a young, abducted woman. From station life to dusty outbacktowns, Clarrie Cameron recreates the campfire yarns of his past on the page bydeftly weaving together anecdote, wit and allegory. He captures thepeculiarities and contradictions of human nature which readers all over theworld will instantly recognise.