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Original Title:	A Fortunate Life
ISBN:	0140081674 (ISBN13: 9780140081671)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Western Australia(Australia)
Literary Awards:	New South Wales Premier's Literary Award for Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction (1981), National Book Council Banjo Award for Non-Fiction (1981)

A Fortunate Life Paperback | Pages: 331 pages

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This is the extraordinary life of an ordinary man. It is the story of Albert Facey, who lived with simple honesty, compassion and courage. A parentless boy who started work at eight on the rough West Australian frontier, he struggled as an itinerant rural worker, survived the gore of Gallipoli, the loss of his farm in the Depression, the death of his son in World War II and that of his beloved wife after sixty devoted years - yet he felt that his life was fortunate.
Facey's life story, published when he was eighty-seven, has inspired many as a play, a television series, and an award-winning book that has sold over half a million copies.

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Title	:	A Fortunate Life
Author	:	Albert B. Facey
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 331 pages
Published	:	1981 by Penguin Books Australia Ltd
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Biography. Cultural. Australia. Classics. Autobiography. Memoir. History

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Albert Facey was a storyteller. Australian born in the late 1800's, his mother abandoned him at just two years of age. From then on, he led a remarkable life from being farmed out at a young age (to cruel and kind families alike), working in agriculture and lifestock, serving during World War I at Gallipoli, surviving the Depression and the loss of a son during World War II. Facey often told these stories to his children, who begged him to write them down for future generations. As it happened,

I can't be enthusiastic enough about this autobiography by Albert Facey. This is the kind of book that you read aloud to your kids when they are beginning to be bored with you reading to them. Albert Facey was born in 1894 in Australia. Abandoned by his mother at age 4, he was raised by his grandmother in the goldfields of western Australia. He was let out to work at age 8. Completely self taught, he was unflinchingly hard working. He escaped from drunken employers after they beat him with a

This book was given me by a woman of Italian ancestry who was raised in Australia. In handing it over she noted that it was a text familiar to most Australisns. Having the impression that it was fictional I wasn't sure I'd read it. Given our friendship, however, I resolved to give it a try.As it happens this is an autobiography of one Albert B. Facey, born just before the turn of one century and dead shortly before the beginning of the next. The focus of the work is on the first quarter of the

loved it - felt like I'd lost my best friend when I fineshed it.

Quite a life did A.B. Facey lead. Sent to work in the Western Australian wheat district at the age of 9, his early employers used him as slave labour including one who horse-whipped him. He learnt a lot of practical things related to farming and by the age of 16 was able to manage properties. He kept moving from job to job and seemed to be industrious, no nonsense, very capable and intelligent chap. WWI sent him to Gallipoli and he returned in late in 1915 with serious internal injuries. He has

While in the second hand store looking for books to read during my month in Costa Rica I came across the memoir, A Fortunate Life. My idea was to read books while traveling around CR and then leave them in whatever city I finished them thus making more room available in my suitcase to bring home souvineers. After reading this book, no, reading is the wrong word ....um...living ...experiencing ...empathizing ...something like that, I have determined my life will have one less souvineer so that I