THE WEILMORINGLE KID, by B.J. Pettit (1st Ed. SIGNED)

Author: B.J. Pettit. Published by Waratah Press, Nanaimo, BC., 1997, 1st Edition. FLAT SIGNED, with a date and general dedication by the Author. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.5 x 5.5 inch, 204 pages.  

THE WEILMORINGLE KID, by B.J. Pettit, is the story of how a newly minted teacher was assigned to teach Australian Aboriginal youth living in the middle of nowhere.

Brian Pettit grew up on a poultry farm west of Sydney, Australia. A scholarship to Wagga Wagga Teachers’ College launched a career in education. His first assignment (1961) was to a fifty thousand acre sheep station in the outback where he had to build the school first before teaching in it. His experiences with the mostly Aboriginal students were the subject of this, his first novel.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: In 1965, he and two friends sailed from Australia for Canada, just to ‘have a look’. There, as their parents lamented, ‘the boys forgot to come home’. After a year of teaching at Topley, B.C., Pettit ventured to Vancouver Island and found work setting chokers and scaling in a logging camp. He eventually moved to Nanaimo to teach and was principal of a number of elementary schools until retiring in 1997.

For his Masters degree at the University of Victoria he wrote the thesis Canadian Nationalism: With What Are We to Identify Ourselves? (1984), seen as sub-themes in his novels When The Curlew Cries (1998), Saturday’s Hero (2000) and Cameron’s Crossing (2006).

1st Edition Author Signed  

ISBN: 9780968127304  

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