Tiger in the bush (John Marsden presents Australian children's classics) - Softcover

Synopsis

For eleven-year-old Badge the world is bounded by the high ridges that enclose his valley home, deep in the heart of Tasmania. He delights in the wild life that surrounds him, and cares little for the world Outside.

But one day visitors arrive from Outside - Russ, a splendid cousin from America, and his friend Dr Heftman, who have come to study the local natural and they bring a new interest into Badge's life.

He had once been shown one of the country's rarest animals, the nearly extinct Tasmanian tiger, coming to a pool to and he had promised never to reveal its whereabouts. But, carried away by the admiration of his cousin, he tells the and then faces a terrible dilemma, for now Russ will want to carry the rare animal away from the free life of the wilds into captivity.

Against a wonderfully vivid portrayal of the Tasmanian bush, Nan Chauncy has set a compelling story, peopled with vigorously drawn characters and deeply expressive of her own great love for wild animals and life in the open air.

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