The Bush
$32.94
- Hardcover
448 pages
- Release Date
20 April 2027
Summary
The definitive national portrait as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series.
While most of us live in cities clinging to the coastal fringe, our sense of what an Australian is, or should be, is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by ‘the bush’, and how has it shaped us?
Starting with his forebears’ battle to drive back nature and eke a living from the land, Don Watson explores the bush as it …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761625985 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1761625985 |
| Author: | Don Watson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 20 April 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 1mm x 1mm x 1mm |
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Don Watson
Don Watson’s books, articles, and essays have been widely acclaimed. His bestselling titles include:
- Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: Paul Keating Prime Minister, which won the Age Book of the Year and Non-Fiction Prizes, the Brisbane Courier Mail Book of the Year, the National Biography Award, and the Australian Literary Studies Association’s Book of the Year.
- Death Sentence, which won the Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year.
- Watson’s Dictionary of Weasel Words.
- American Journeys, which won The Age Book of the Year and Non-Fiction Book of the Year, the inaugural Indie Award for Non-Fiction, and the Walkley Non-Fiction Award.
In 2010, Don was awarded the Phillip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Australian Literature.
His critically acclaimed 2014 book The Bush recently won the Indie Book of the Year and the NSW Premier’s Literary Award.
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