A Fine Country to Starve in by Geoffrey Bolton

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed half-title page. Dust jacket has creasing at edges and at spine. Marks on both front and back covers. Now enclosed in protective sleeve. Body text and binding are still very good.

In its centenary year of British settlement, Western Australia, isolated, optimistic and clannish, was shaken by the onset of the Great Depression. Bolton traces the Depression years until the secession referendum of 1933 when the West voted to quit the Australian Commonwealth.

Includes discussion of the Group Settlement Scheme in the South West.

First published in 1972, this edition has a new introduction reflecting on the 1930s and the halcyon days of the 1980s boom.