He left home in his teenage years and headed for the bush. For months he trekked through the desert and ranges of Central Australia as the camel-man of a two-man expedition. He then worked as a drover. The sale of a handmade pack-saddle to Sir Sidney Kidman for five pounds was the beginning of a business which grew rapidly. The mail-order business made him wealthy and positioned him as a household name throughout the bush. Paperback
