A Fine Country to Starve in by Geoffrey Bolton

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Stamps and barcode to inside pages. Wear to book edges and corners, particularly at spine. Pages are sunned. Binding is still good. Dust jacket is in poor condition with a substantial section of spine missing. Tears and sticky tape to front and back covers. Now enclosed in a protective sleeve.

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.