Traveler's Rest

by Ben Robertson, Beatrice Naff Bailey (editor)

Travelers’ Rest is a family epic, but it is also an American epic, carrying a message that can also be found in Ben Robertson’s other, more famous works, Red Hills and Cotton and I Saw England (his first-hand account of the Battle of Britain). Thoughts of the Republic’s founding and American values were very much on Robertson’s mind as a journalist covering Washington and Europe as he anticipated the coming of the Second World War.

381 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 15, 2023

About the author

Ben Robertson is a former journalist with The Courier-Mail, The Sunday Mail and WIN Television. He is the author of The Von: Stories and Suggestions from Australian Golf’s Little Master about Australian sporting legend Norman von Nida (UQP 1999), The Second Father: An Insider’s Story of Cops, Crime and Corruption (UQP 2009) and Who's Who in the Zoo, the memoirs of former undercover policeman and Italian migrant Domenico ‘Mick’ Cacciola. In 2012 UQP published Ben’s memoir Hear Me Roar: The Story of a Stay-at-Home Dad.