A Fortunate Life
Facey B A
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Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2018
Edition: Reprint
Description: 476 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.
Publishers Description: Born in 1894, and first sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a labourer and farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy, surviving Gallipoli, raising a family through the Depression, losing a son in the Second World War, and meeting his beloved Evelyn with whom he shared nearly sixty years of marriage.Despite enduring unimaginable hardships, Facey always saw his life as a fortunate one.A true classic of Australian literature, Faceys simply penned story offers a unique window onto the history of Australian life through the greater part of the twentieth century the extraordinary journey of an ordinary man.
ISBN: 9781925591385
(211087)
