Barefoot Through the Bindies: Growing Up in North Queensland in the Early 1900s by Marion Houldsworth

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex Library copy with all stickers taken off front cover. Some wear to book edges. See images for more information.

Australian children of the Federation era, had a different set of expectations to children today. Many of them walked barefoot through the bindi-eyes to school. Their homes were bark-huts with ant-bed floors. They harnessed their billy-goat carts to fetch wood and water, and on starting work at thirteen, gave their pay-packets to mothers of struggling to feed large families. This book includes many reminiscences of growing up in North Queensland.