Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter One Babes in the Wood; Chapter Two Childhood in Colonial Australia; Chapter Three Bush Searches; Chapter Four Lost Children in Australia; Chapter Five Lost Children in Other Settler Societies; Chapter Six Commemorations of the Lost; Conclusion 'Little Boy Lost': An Image for Modern Australia; Select Bibliography; Notes; Index
Summary
Along with drought, fire and flood, the child lost in the Bush has played a powerful part in the Australian imagination since early colonial times. These fascinating stories and their accompanying illustrations are drawn from popular journals, newspaper accounts and films, diaries and letters. Babes in the Bush provides intriguing insights into the relationship between Europeans and Aborigines and into the domestic lives of Australia's colonial settlers and our changing attitudes towards children and childhood
