![]() ![]() The scenes where Albert joins a cattledroving team across Western Australia are particularly vivid and exciting.īut readers will also be moved when they notice what young Albert lacks: a family to provide real emotional support, a sense of home, and the chance to attend school. This is an extraordinary life: escaping cruel employers, managing a farm on his own at 14, boxing his way around Australia, building railways and soldiering. Young readers 10+ will be enthralled by the adventures of young Albert. Albert Facey’s simple recounting of childhood and youth more than a hundred years ago takes place in an Australia that is scarcely recognisable today. They say the past is another country, and that was never more true than for this new young reader’s edition of the Australian classic A Fortunate Life. ![]()
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