To straggle muster is to muster in sheep that have been missed in previous musters. Working on the vast hill stations of the South Island, shepherding them by the thousand, and describing here forty years in the hill country with cooks and packies, wild cattle, bosses and publicans, harvesting teams and lonely shepherds.
The men who thinly populate the vast high country stations, who love it's rugged, desolate and beautiful landscape. This is a man's world where the life tests character at every point and danger and fatigue weed out the not so tough.
Peter Newton writes with humour and verve of a proud profession, and behind the fun and frolic he will show you a proud high country itself.
