Going Bush: A Yorkshireman Settles in Australia by James Dixon

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Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned.

In the early 1920s, James Dixson migrated to Western Australia, leaving behind family in the Yorkshire farming community of Lockington Carr. As an itinerant worker, he turned his hand to shearing, fence mending, ploughing and harvesting.

Jim made his way around Western Australia from the timber country to the Wheatbelt. There he met his wife Nell, who followed Jim to the Goldfields when he decided to try his hand at prospecting and later working on the railways.

In 1940, Jim joined the RAAF and was posted to the Middle East. After the war, Jim and Nell and their children settled on a small farm near Chittering Hill, named the Bend. (back cover)