Goodbye to the Bush, by Richard Parker

Published in 1964 by Ginn and Company Ltd, illustrated by Kenneth Brown. This is part of a series of books called Active Readers, designed to encourage “unbookish children”. “In this story Goodbye to the Bush, an attempt has been made to give reality to the very hard, simple, almost primitive  life lived by Tasmanian families more or less isolated in the bush.”

Hardcover, 169 pages, no dust jacket, cover slightly soiled, signs of wear top and bottom of the spine.