Most Australians live in cities and cling to the coastal fringe, yet our sense of what an Australian is - or needs to be - is drawn from the vast and varied inland called 'the bush'. Don Watson explores the bush as it was and as it is now: the triumphs and ruination, the commonplace and the bizarre, the stories we like to tell about ourselves and the national character and those we don't. A fresh examination of our landscape, our unique creatures and ourselves, done in telling, wry detail. Illustrated with black and white and colour photographs.