Once There Was a Bagman, A Memoir by Tom Ronan

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“In Once There was a Bagman, Tom Ronan gives us a vivid and colourful account of the years in which he gathered the background for such works as the Commonwealth Jubilee Prize-winning novel Vision Splendid, his Moleskin Midas and many other stories. He was twenty years old when he left the West Coast Pearling fleets (a phase of life recorded in the earlier book of memoirs, Packhorse and Pearling Boat) to return to the Northern Territory, scene of many of his boyhood wanderings.”