Swampy: Tall Tales and True From Boyhood and Beyond by Bill Swampy Marsh

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Faint mark on right foredge. Previous owner has stamped inside page.

In this collection of stories, Bill 'Swampy' Marsh takes us from his childhood in a small outback town in the 1950s and coming of age at an all-boys bush boarding school, to his journey as an adult, when he revisits and reflects on youth by travelling in his father's footsteps through rural Australia.

Loveable and eccentric characters are brought to life with humour and affection as we are led through mateship and manhood, cricket and footy, young love and heartbreak, battlers and larrikins, courage and loyalty. These are tales of everyday life in rural Australia. the simple things. the important things ... (back cover)