博客來For over 75 years, in both Wales and Australia, gifted Victorian farmer and poet Joseph Jenkins kept a detailed, perceptive diary. It provides a rare and fascinating insight into pioneering times on two continents, as well as into the inner torment of an absorbingly complex man.
A mode farmer, respected friend of the gentry and politicians in Wales turned middle-aged swagman, scratching out a living as an itinerant farm labourer during the Australian gold rush, Joseph confided almost everything in his journal. Bethan Phillips’s highly readable analysis presents not only a unique perspective on rural nineteenth-century Wales and Australia, but also the very human story of a man’s decision to turn his life upside down, and his attempt to come to terms with himself.
Celebrated in Australia, the story of the Welsh swagman is one you won’t want to miss!
