Our Year in the Wilderness

by Michael & Susan Cusack

Viking O'Neil, 1991, ISBN 0670903833, full-colour photographs throughout, large format paperback with photographic covers, photographic end-papers

Very Good Condition, spine slightly loose, but still tight text block, a little edge and shelf wear (see photographs)

"This is a book for all who dream of escaping the suburban rat race for the so-called simple life.  Melbourne couple Michael and Susan Cusack were chosen by Australian Geographic from 500 other couples prepared to live for a year in isolation in the wilderness area of Kunmunya, on Australia's north-west Kimberley coast.  They undertook to rely on their own initiative to build a home from bush materials and face the many hardships, in the way of Australia's pioneering forebears.  It is a fascinating personal account - written with sensitivity and honesty, often moving and at times humorous - of their daily life in the wilderness."