Description
Temporarily out of stock
Title: Fear Drive My Feet: Text Classics
Author: RYAN PETER
Illustrator: PIERCE PETER (INTRO)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 24/06/2015
Imprint: TEXT PUBLISHERS
Price: $14.95
Publishing status: Active
Fear Drive My Feet is Peter Ryan’s enduring account of his time patrolling isolated regions of New Guinea during World War II.
Far from his fellow Australians and with Japanese forces closing in around him, the eighteen-year-old Ryan endures the hardships of the jungle, overcoming loneliness, fatigue and fear with quiet courage. He finds beauty in the rugged mountain landscapes of New Guinea, and admires the charm and resourcefulness of its people.
Rarely out of print in the past four decades, Fear Drive My Feet is a classic memoir of the war in the Pacific, a major work of Australian war literature. For the work he describes in this book, Peter Ryan was awarded the Military Medal and mentioned in dispatches.
‘Outstanding.’ Peter Pierce
‘A moving account of a young man’s lonely heroism.’ Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop
ISBN: 9781925240054
Pages: 336