Shearer

Jackie Howe had hands the size of tennis racquets, legs like tree trunks and wrists made of steel. Despite his size, he was light on his feet and did an excellent Irish Jig. But what Jackie was really good at, was shearing sheep.

A rollicking Australian story, set in 1892, about the charismatic, Jackie Howe – the greatest shearer in the world who set the world record for shearing sheep by hand.

He also invented the “singlet”!