AUSTRALIAN PASSPORT

by Colin Wills ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

This is a native son's backward look at the homeland he left because he wished to get into the main stream of modern living and not spend his days in a ""suburb of the world"". But he did not leave it without regrets for a country where one could breakfast in a modern city and lunch among the crags and gorges of virtually untravelled mountains. And there is the bush, where he went as a sheep-hand at sixteen, with ""its power to make you feel that you and all your kind are outweighted by another sort of being, a presence without identity"". Wills, a journalist with an observant eye and a sensitive ear, provides a shrewd, unsentimental but fond view of Australia and the resistant, resourceful and freedom-loving people who have ridden to prosperity on a sheep's back. This should have something of the appeal of Alan Moorehead's Rum Jungle (Scribner) if an American audience can be attracted.

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Publisher: Roy

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1954

Categories: NONFICTION