In Australian wilds : the gleanings of a naturalist

The Bush, the Suburbs and the Long Great War: a Family Memoir

“…20 The naturalist Charles Barrett evoked this in his popular 1919 publication In Australian Wilds, which was promoted as 'the heartfelt product of a returned soldier, come to seek peace in his old bush haunts'. 21 MANUSCRIPT CATEGORY: ARTICLE remarked, 'made Australia more than ever seem the only place worth living on earth'. 22 Not just leisure, but labour in the bush was thought to have health-giving benefits, a view reflected in the postwar schemes to settle returned soldiers on the land.…”