A guide to creating an authentic life, wherever you are
By Jessica Howard
So many people have felt a shift towards prioritising a more authentic life in recent years, and nowhere exemplifies that life better than the bush.
Rural Australians navigate isolation, the weather, and a huge responsibility to the land and their animals, but from these pressures have gleaned powerful and important learnings. The bush lifestyle forces them to slow down (there are no trains to catch, after all) and accept that there are things they can’t change (like the weather). But it also forces them to be self-sufficient, respect nature, find beauty in all the seasons and foster a sense of community.
Bush Wisdom shares the stories of a wide range of fascinating rural characters, featuring twenty important learnings we can all live by, wherever that may be.
Read Rebecca Rowlings’ review for ARR.News:
“It is 240 pages of words and images that are a feast for the eyes as well as for the soul. If you live in rural Australia, so many of the images feel like home, although there is such a variety of locations that there are new landscapes to explore for everyone.”
About the author:
Jessica Howard was a journalist and producer for 15 years before becoming a photographer. Now she combines her two loves to tell evocative stories about rural and regional Australia. She founded the rural publication, Bush Journal, and is the author of Bush Life.
