The Boy from Buninyong

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Relates the life of showman Owen Rutherford Lloyd, who went from being a retrenched apprentice engineer during the Depression to a busker, fire-eater, sword swallower, illusion creator and animal trainer. Provides new insights into a neglected aspect of Australia’s history – travelling shows. In 1979, aged over 70, Lloyd won the ‘Viewers’ Choice’ award in the ABC ‘Best of the Buskers Competition’. The author’s junior fiction novel, ‘The River’s Revenge’, has been read on Radio National.