# Harland's Half Acre

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- Book: [Harland's Half Acre](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-malouf/harlands-half-acre) ([Harland's Half Acre.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-malouf/harlands-half-acre.md))
- Authors: [David Malouf](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-malouf)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9927-383-7
- Pages: 240
- Published: 1999-05-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Born on a poor dairy farm in Queensland, Frank Harland's life is centred on his great artistic gift, his passionate love for his father and four brothers and his need to repossess, through a patch of land, his family's past. The story spans Frank's life; from before the First World War, through years as a swaggie in the Great Depression and Brisbane in the forties, to his retirement to a patch of Australian scrub where he at last takes possession of his dream. Harland's Half Acre tells how a man sets out to recover the land his ancestors discovered and then lost and how, in fulfilment, this vision becomes a new reality.