A Fortunate Life (Illustrated Hardback). By A B Facey

A Fortunate Life By A B Facey.

Publisher: Viking, Australia, 1986. Illustrated edition.

Very good hardback with jacket. brown faux leather boards with gilt titles to spine. Binding firm, gift inscription to end-paper. pages very good, minor marks, light foxing to edges. Jacket has light shelf-wear. 342 pages, illustrated.

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 60 years of marriage.

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