The Bush and the Never Never by Gerald Walsh

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Protective plastic covering. Partial date due slip and piece of stick tape on title page. Minor edgewear. Book is clean and binding is still very good.

Crisp as a whipcrack and told at a lively pace, The Bush and the Never Never is full of colourful people, bizarre incidents (comic and tragic) and little-known facts about bush life in Australia.

A blend of anecdotes and carefully researched history, this book cover topics such as the occupations and preoccupations of bushmen and women to the hazards of life in the bush; from swagmen, squatters and selectors, their modes of transport and their recreations, to bunyips drought, bush medicine, weather forecasting and more. (Trove)