vi, 265 pages. The front of the jacket has a closed tear at the tail, else clean, unmarked and solid. "The author describes his bush boyhood and early manhood in the Echuca district. He worked as a bargee, labourer and timber-getter along the Murray River during the Depression, and relates the poverty, ingenuity and eccentricity of migrant tomato pickers and many other rural "battlers". (Trove)