Gone Bush is set on the South Alligator River in the northern Territory. It is an astonishing account of a boy's working adventure on an abandoned cattle run in the 1950s; astonishing because the way of life then was far removed from today.
This is a significant work of Australiana written in the good-natured laconic spirit we claim as part of our identity. The locality has since been absorbed into Kakadu National Park and there are fascinating descriptions of the Myeelee tribespeople with whom the writer lived worked and played.
