The Bush

Whereas most of us stay in cities clinging to the coastal fringe, our sense of what an Australian is, or needs to be, is drawn from the huge and different inland referred to as the bush. However what can we imply by ‘the bush’, and the way has it formed us?

Beginning along with his forebears’ battle to drive again nature and eke a dwelling from the land, Don Watson explores the bush because it was and because it now is- the triumphs and the ruination, the commonplace and the weird, the tales we like to inform about ourselves and the nationwide character, and people we don’t.

A milestone work of memoir, journey writing and historical past, The Bush takes us on a profoundly revelatory and entertaining journey by way of the Australian panorama and character.