Kookynie to Keysbrook by Ivan Elliot

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Stamps and stickers on inside pages. Partial date due slip and borrower card on inside pages. Sunning to foredges. Foxing to tail foredge. Dust jacket is worn and is now enclosed in protective cover. Body text and binding are still very good.

The Goldfields was not an easy place in which to bring up a family but apart from the usual sore eyes and colds we all came on well and all 11 of ours attended Kookynie State School.

Ivan Elliot, whose father operated a brewery at Broadarrow before the turn of the 20th century, was one of the families that pioneered the Kookynie Station and mining country. He later settled at Keysbrook, where he built a prosperous farm and was among those who introduced polo to Western Australia.

Elliot's account of life in both districts over 83 years is told through short, related, campfire-style anecdotes, laced with dry bushman humour. (back cover)