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ANECDOTES AND OBSERVATIONS FROM FIVE DECADES IN THE WOOL INDUSTRY

Roger Buchanan

Second edition
ISBN 978-0-473-22787-6

New Zealand’s wool industry has seen turbulent times over the past 100 years and for many of those years Roger Buchanan was intimately involved – growing up on the family farm near Feilding, working for a wool merchant, studying then tutoring at Massey College before setting out on a long career with various statutory organisations including the Wool Commission, Wool Marketing Corporation and Wool Board. He was the Board’s final chief executive and oversaw a final wind-down process that lasted until July 2012.

Last Shepherd is autobiography, industry history, analysis of the industry and its politics and plenty of fascinating anecdotes. For much of his career Roger Buchanan was involved in overseas promotion and was one of New Zealand’s early ‘China hands’. Wool was the stalking horse for our trade push into China and Roger took a leading role in this, over more than 50 visits and many negotiations – starting from before China opened up to the Western world. The book vividly describes highs, lows and fascinating incidents from his experiences in China, along with Japan, South Asia, Russia, UK, Europe, Iran and the Middle East.

• softcover • 309 pages • 177 illustrations and period adverts • index (click to see)


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January 2013