BY CARAVAN
eee ARE MY PEOPLE. By Alan Marshal. F. W. Cheshire Pty. Ltd., Melbourne (through Oswald-Sealy, Auckland). HIS is a very pleasant account of a caravan journey through Victoria, written by a man who knows (in general) what to leave out. First it was a horsedrawn caravan; but when the author (a cripple) broke his leg trying to ride one of the horses which had strayed, it was feund necessary to substitute petrol for horse-power and to turn back from Mildura instead of venturing into the vast beyond. Fortunately there was a wife in the caravan, and at first a dog too, but the dog died of poison, and the wife had to park herself in a country-store while the broken leg was setting. But she was the right kind of wife, sympathetic and gentle without too much sorrow either for herself or for the man in hospital. The second part of the journey is quite as interesting as the first part, though the travellers « are heading in a wide circle for home, beaten by time and petrol-shortage and distance, but never for one day dispirited or dull. Although it was ridiculous to suggest on the dust cover that this is an important book, it is a very good book of its kind, vivid, and now and again almost poetic. If the decorations by Nutter Buzacott are not exactly distinguished, they are certainly very pleasing.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 344, 25 January 1946, Page 16
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236BY CARAVAN New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 344, 25 January 1946, Page 16
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