My Early Years Down Under: An Autobiographical Account of an English Migrant Trying to Find Work in Western Australia at the Beginning of the Great Depression, 1929-1931 by John (Jack) Edge

Book Description.

Secondhand. Fair condition. Ex library copy with stamps and protective plastic coating. Foredge of book and inside cover has staining. Book has been sanitised and binding is tight.

John Edge was born in Leicester in 1910. He lived a typical working class life, leaving school early to earn his keep. In 1929, aged eighteen, Jack migrates to Western Australia. He is soon one of the thousands of unemployed men seeking work across Western Australia. During his two years in Australia, Jack travels through the State.

This book is compiled from his letters and reminisces.