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emma_in_dream) wrote2011-08-26 07:17 pm
emma_in_dream) wrote2011-08-26 07:17 pm
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*The Raft in the Bush*
I ordered an Ethel Turner that I don't have with my birthday money. Then it got lost. So I ordered a copy again from someone else.
Got it. Read it. Now I see why there were multiple copies available on Ebay.
It's a very odd Ethel Turner novel. She usually writes realist, contemporary fiction aimed at the group just sub-flappers (would now be called teenagers). This is a fantasy novel with an Aboriginal man building a raft on wheels and having various adventures with talking animals in the bush.
Interesting, I guess, as I know Mary Grant Bruce made a similar experiment - *Timothy in Bushland* (1912).
Got it. Read it. Now I see why there were multiple copies available on Ebay.
It's a very odd Ethel Turner novel. She usually writes realist, contemporary fiction aimed at the group just sub-flappers (would now be called teenagers). This is a fantasy novel with an Aboriginal man building a raft on wheels and having various adventures with talking animals in the bush.
Interesting, I guess, as I know Mary Grant Bruce made a similar experiment - *Timothy in Bushland* (1912).