The Wayward Gang by Wal Watkins

The Wayward Gang

by Wal Watkins

Rigby, 1965, [First Edition], hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, previous owners inscription on reverse fly-leaf, pages age toned, dust-jacket shows some edge and shelf wear with rubbing, bumping, chipping, creasing and small tears to edges and corners, small sticker on front dust-jacket, small parts missing at top and base of spine (see photographs)

"A lonely stretch of Transcontinental railway in the mulga country that approaches the barren wastes of the almost inhabited.  Nullarbor Plain is maintained by a tough gang of fettlers - the Wayward Gang.
Life in a fettlers' camp is no picnic.  The conditions are such that only the brawny non-conformists and the unskilled misfits can be recruited.  Many of them are little more than drifters attracted perhaps by the knowledge that they can't so easily "blow" their wages so far from the temptations of the city."