“Classy…
The pictorial component of the book has been handled with care and pride … It is indeed a tapestry of many colours … This is a family story for all suburbs, for all seasons…
We need more historical excavations of this quality.”
Reviewer: Patrick Cornish, Royal Western Australian Historical Society
Not content with hearsay, Julie has researched and debunked apparently misleading family stories.
The result is a well-researched social and family history book following some of Western Australia’s forbearers.
The book is 308 pages, professionally designed, reproduced in full colour and has approximately 100 original photographs and illustrations.
Blurb:
In the 1850’s the long arm of destiny stretched across the oceans and plucked a young George Parsons and some rabbits from a village in England and brought them to a grazier’s property in south eastern Australia. The boy, who was ill-treated, made good his escape as did the rabbits. Both went forth and multiplied. Both cleared the land, one at the bidding of the government, the other because it could. Both changed this ancient land forever.
This story follows George Parsons’ son and his brood as they and the rabbits independently made their way from east to west Australia.
Great-grandson, Alan Parsons, the central figure of this book, was born in the WA wheat belt on the eve of the Great Depression. By then the rabbits had become a source of food and cash for rural survival. So began Alan’s life of uncharted opportunities in the Golden West.
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