Media: paperback 192 pages
Author: by J. Carter
Year: 1977

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HERE IS A ROBUST PICTURE of an Australia which few people know. Jeff Carter writes in his usual forthright and picturesque style about the people he met when he turned his back on the cities. . . the true individualists such as the maker of flint-lock muskets, the bird-imitator. the builder of dry stone walls. He tells also of how he and his family took over an overgrown farm in the hills, and of their fashioning of a new and richly satisfying way of life far from traffic-lights and smog.

It is a full-flavoured book of the open air. of the sturdiness and self-reliance of those to whom achievements mean more than possessions. And if, in reading it. you should wish that you could live in the same wav. Jeff Carter gives some tantalizing advice on how you can build a new life for yourself in company with those of stout hearts and leathery hands.

Before JEFF CARTER, who was born in Melbourne in 1928. became a full-time freelance journalist and photographer in 1954 he had a varied career. He describes his previous occupations as “floor-walker chucker-out" at Young and Jackson's hotel. Melbourne: fruit-picker: labourer for Roads Board. Water Board, and builders: wool comber, cotton winder, cold-room hand, plum-pudding shoveller. ‘Western’ pulp-writer, and editor." Since then “life has been a continuous succession of motor travel round the Outback." He and his wife. Marc, have sold the record number of a million words of descriptive articles about Australia. 

Contents

contents
Prologue
Down on the farm
They came to a valley
The good old days
Stout heart and leathery hands
A flash in the pan
The bird man
East of Eden
The salmon fishers
Gone fishin’
Many happy returns
The lost tribes
The horse breaker
The garden of Eden
Paradise lost
Our vanishing wildlife
Our littered landscape
Keeper of the forest