The Complete Home Astrologer
Thomas Nelson Australia. $6.95 pb
The Gatton Mystery
Angus & Robertson
Book Notes
Nuts to You!
Robert Stuart
Wentworth Books
Robert Stuart, having failed to gain admission to Sandhurst, was sent to Australia to complete an agricultural course at Hawkesbury, obtain some experience and then set himself up as a grazier. As money was not forthcoming for the third stage of his plans, he went to Bougainville instead, and became a planter. His autobiography tells of his years in Australia, his work in developing the plantation, and his experience during the war and the changes of post-war administrations until 1968. His account gives the reader insight into the mentality as well as the activity of the pre-war planter, a type which now probably exists only in Rhodesia.
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