Not Just the Wife of the General Manager av Sally Warriner

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<P><B><I>Not Just the Wife of the General Manager</I> is a rollicking memoir of one woman’s life on outback cattle stations, and an homage to the many unsung women like her.</B> </P><P>It was the 1980s and Sally Warriner was in her early 20s when she returned from a backpacking sojourn and hitchhiked to Australia’s far north. But instead of moving back to Canberra as planned, she stayed. After marrying a cattle station manager, Sally lived and worked with him on various stations until she was 50, injecting herself into the lives of the characters who inhabited these isolated places.</P><P>With wit and sass, Sally tells the story of how she was so much more than just a wife of a station manager (despite what the blokes of the top end thought). Among other things, she was a nurse (dealing with local accidents, assisting the Flying Doctor service and making emergency 400 km round trips through the outback with sick children), a mother (bringing up several childr