Table of Contents

Foreword

1. Leading lights (an introduction to the book)

2. Steve Birkbeck - The Sultan of Sandalwood

3. Tom O'Toole - Beechworth Baker

4. Port fairy - Festival Town

5. Jane Bennett - Deloraine's revival

6. Roger Fletcher - The Drover's Way

7. Melissa Fletcher - Go West Young Woman

8. Reaching for Dreams - Longreach

9. Holbrook - The Inland Submarine

10. Peter and Judy Howarth - Nundle

11. Mick the Whip Man

12. Arizona, Australia

13. Glass Act - Warburton

14. Central Parkes - Bill Gibbins

15. Quorn Reborn

16. Where to Now?

About the Author

Tim Fischer is the much-loved 'Boy from Boree Creek'. Here he is doing what he does best, talking about people in the non-metropolitan regions in a practical and positive way. Peter Rees is Tim Fischer's biographer and has spent more than two decades in the Canberra Press Gallery reporting national affairs.