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The Way it Was
As former prime minister Jim Bolger writes about his friend of 40 years in the book's Foreword: You don't have to be a romantic for the land and life distant from city and town lights to find this book inspirational. The Way It Was is the down-to-earth, very readable story of Tom Brough - man of many parts. After a challenging childhood in the King Country backblocks and minimal schooling, Tom Brough became a Golden Shears Open Champion (shearing a million sheep along the way), King Country Farmer-of-the-Year (turning unproductive country into a model farm) and noted hunter (pigs and deer in New Zealand and more exotic animals in Finland, Namibia and Mongolia). A committed family man as well, three children and eight grandchildren are an important part of Tom and Larraine Brough's busy lives.
The Way it was
The Way it Was by Tom Brough records the life of a champion shearer (winner Golden Shears 1976 and New Zealand representative), farmer, hunter and family man, growing up in the King Country "backwoods" area of Aria, prior to the arrival of gravelled roads, electricity and telephones, during and after the years of World War II. Tom wrote this book "just for the grandkids" while he was laid up having a hip replacement, but it has become a most popular record of live in a rural community and a way of life that has all but been removed from New Zealand society through the advent of electronic communications and modern transport. Tom writes in a lively and honest style that strikes a chord with readers who also remember "the way it was".
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