Many a Muddy Morning

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According to his mother, the first recognisable word Mark Warren correctly affixed to anything was 'truck'. An obsession with rugged vehicles soon followed: Land Rovers, Land Cruisers, tractors, snow-ploughs, motorbikes. It it had wheels, it warranted Mark's attention. In this often-hilarious memoir, Mark recounts stories of working as a grease monkey rallying in a purpose-built Toyota Land Cruiser, rescuing ski bunnies off icy mountain roads, and shepherding in the Mackenzie Country. Interwoven with these yarns is his tale of being thrust, while still in his twenties, into single-handedly managing a steep and muddy Hawke's Bay station in the 1980s, just as the ways of farming in New Zealand were about to change forever. Book jacket.