Author John (Jack) Edge, 137 Pages.

An autobiographical account of an English Migrant trying to find work in Western Australia at the beginning of the Great Depression, 1929-1931.(Revised edition).

It is 1929, the year of the Wall Street collapse that bought on the great Depression. But Jack is eighteen years old and knows nothing of that. A city boy destined to spend his working life in the factories of Leicester, he dreams of escaping to the open spaces of Australia. But Western Australia is hit hard by the Depression and, like thousands of other young men, he soon finds himself down and out and ready to turn his hand to anything honest…

Jack’s two years in Australia marked his coming of age. Letters home, still in the family, reflect his boyhood dreams transform into manly determination while this autobiographical account, written many years later, records the experience un vivid detail.