Into the World by Mate Alac

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. some wear to book corners. Previous owner has stamped the book. Dust jacket is in very good condition with only minor wear.

When Mate Alac, aged 18, left his small village on the Dalmatia coast in 1926 to emigrate to Western Australia, he believed he was coming to a land where an easy fortune was to be made. What he found in Australia was vastly different. He worked as a sleeper cutter in the South West and as a miner and copper prospector in the eastern goldfields. He also served as in WWII.