Don Watson: The Bush (e-Book) Starting with his forebears&#x27; battle to drive back nature and eke a living from the land, Don Watson explores the bush as it was and as it now is: ...  Via mountain ash and mallee, the birds and the beasts, slaughter, fire, flood and drought, swagmen, sheep and their shepherds, the strange and the familiar, the tragedies and the follies, the crimes and the myths and the hope – here is a journey that only our leading writer of non-fiction could take us on.