Hardcover, Ward, Lock & Co edition. Book in good condition, dust jacket poor; price clipped.

Children’s author and journalist Mary Grant Bruce is most famous for her ‘Billabong’ series, featuring the Linton family and their Billabong Station in Victoria.

It was through her writing that the Australian national identity and values of fierce patriotism, the beauty of the bush and the dangers of its landscape were developed and propagated, including the quintessentially Aussie values of the outback including hard physical labour, mateship and the ANZAC spirit.