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The spellbinding true story of a young woman's adventure in the Australian outback as she joins a small crew on an abandoned cattle station and drags feral cattle in from the wild. One thousand square miles of coastal scrub--inundated by monsoon floods in summer, baked dry in winter, and filled with the most deadly animals in the world--Stilwater seems an unlikely home for a cattle operation. But in the countless miles beyond the station compound roam tens of thousands of cows, many entirely feral from a long period of neglect. Rafael has been hired, along with a ragged crew of ringers and stockmen, to bring them in for drafting. Over a season they use helicopters, motorcycles, bullcatcher jeeps, horses, ropes, and knives to win Stilwater Station back from the wild. A deeply poetic inquiry into our desire to make order where we find wildness, Stilwater: Finding Mercy in the Outback suffuses us with salt and scrub and blood, blurring the line between domestic and feral in wondrous, unsettling ways. This is a whirlwind of men, women, cattle, horses, machines and landscape in collaborative evolution, all becoming different manifestations of the same entity--the Australian Wild.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Memoirs

• Full title: Stilwater
• Subtitle: Finding Wild Mercy in the Outback
• Author: Rafael de Grenade
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781571313140
• ISBN: 1571313141
• ID: 04818944
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Weight: 354 g
• Dimensions: 212 × 139 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. June 2014

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