num_pages: 240
description: Born on a poor dairy farm in Queensland Frank Harlands life is centered on his great artistic gift his passionate love for his father and four brothers and his need to repossess through a patch of land his familys past. The story spans Franks life; from before the First World War through years as a swaggie in the Great Depression and Brisbane in the forties to his retirement to a patch of Australian scrub where he at last takes possession of his dream. Harlands Half Acre tells how a man sets out to recover the land his ancestors discovered and then lost and how in fulfilment this vision becomes a new reality.
language: English
title: Harland's Half Acre
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group