Boy In The Bush

The Boy in the Bush covers a few years in the life of Jack Grant, from his arrival in Western Australia in 1882, 53 years after first settlement. "Why do I need to go to Western Australia, Dad?" the young boy posits. "Because it'll build your character", explains Dad. Dad has spoken, it will be. It's the 1880s. Jack has got into bad company back in England and been expelled from school. His mother is West Australian, his father a General in the English Army and when he is posted overseas, which is most of the time, mother prefers to be with the General and so Jack has spent many years alone and unhappy in boarding school. More to have him out of the way than improve him, Jack has been sent out to spend a year with the Ellises, distant relatives clearing a farm, ‘Wandoo’, out of virgin bush 130 km east of Perth over the Darling Ranges.

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