Babes In the Bush

Fremantle, Curtin University/Fremantle Art Centre first edition - paperback, stiff card covers Along with drought, fire and flood, the stories of children lost in the bush became central to the Australian colonial experience. This book provides intriguing insights into domestic lives of Australia's settlers and our changing attitudes towards children and childhood, as well as an examination of the relationship… Read more about this item

Freemantle Arts Centre, Perth 2005. 23.0 x 15.0cms, 270pp b/w illusts, very good+ paperback & cover The chapters are: 'babies in the wood'; childhood in colonial Australia; bush searches; lost children in Australia; lost children in other settler societies; mommemorations of the lost; 'little boy lost', an image for modern Australia.