Monday, April 29, 2013

Roger Buchanan spins a yarn



New Zealand’s wool industry has seen turbulent years and for more than 50 of them Roger Buchanan has been intimately involved – from the shearing shed on the family farm to overseeing the dismantling of the Wool Board as its final chief executive. Today Roger publishes his book Last Shepherd as an ebook, available on www.amazon.com and www.mebooks.co.nz

Last Shepherd has been written from a front seat in the industry roller coaster. It is autobiography, industry history, analysis of the industry and its politics – peppered with many fascinating anecdotes. Roger Buchanan uses his unparalleled position to frankly analyse the successes and failures of the statutory wool bodies. What happened to New Zealand wool? And where have all the sheep gone?

Roger Buchanan grew up on the family sheep farm before working for a wool merchant and a wool scour, studying then tutoring at Massey College, then setting out on a long career with successive wool industry bodies. As an expert in international market development he was among the first to forge a trade relationship with China in the 1970s. His career has since taken him to Japan, USA, India, Nepal, Russia, the Middle East and ‘traditional’ markets in Britain and Europe. He was the Wool Board’s final chief executive.

Last Shepherd: Anecdotes and observations from five decades in the wool industry
Author: Roger Buchanan
Publisher: Mahico
Pub date: April 2013
Print ISBN: 978-0-473-22787-6
Paperback, 312pp, NZ$45


Kindle ISBN: 978-0-473-24209-1
US$11.95 from www.amazon.com
Epub ISBN: 978-0-473-24210-7
NZ$13.95 from www.mebooks.co.nz

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