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The Resource Larrikins, bush tales & other great Australian stories, Graham Seal

Larrikins, bush tales & other great Australian stories, Graham Seal

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Larrikins, bush tales & other great Australian stories
Title
Larrikins, bush tales & other great Australian stories
Statement of responsibility
Graham Seal
Title variation
Larrikins, bush tales and other great Australian stories
Creator
Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
Yarns, legends, myths, jokes and anecdotes are our national lifeblood. The home-grown and borrowed tales, told and re-told over generations, offer an insight into the larger national story of which every Australian has a part. Was Breaker Morant the Gatton murderer? What happened to Sniffling Jimmy and Black Mary? We revisit some of the most colourful characters in Australia's past, and the stories that have grown around them. We go looking for the real illywhacker and find out what happened after the execution of our most famous outlaw, Ned Kelly. It takes a certain character to make a living in the Australian bush. In the most difficult situations, laughter often comes to the rescue. Here are pioneers and battlers, convicts and settlers' children, and a land that tests them with fire, flood and drought, all in stories resonant with Australia's distinctive wry humour. Dip into Larrikins, Bush Tales and Other Great Australian Stories for a taste of Australia's rich history and traditions
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1950-
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Seal, Graham
Dewey number
994
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Frontier and pioneer life
  • Folklore
  • Country life
  • Australia
  • Australia
  • Australia
  • Australia
Label
Larrikins, bush tales & other great Australian stories, Graham Seal
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-299)
Carrier category
volume
Content category
  • still image
  • text
Contents
1. Wide brown land -- 2. Upon the fatal shore -- 3. Plains of promise -- 4. A fair go -- 5. How we travel the land -- 6. Doing it tough -- 7. Home of the weird -- 8. Romancing the swag -- 9. After the Kellys -- 10. The child in the bush -- 11. Larger than life -- 12. Working for a laugh
Control code
000053732598
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xv, 299 pages
Isbn
9781743319963
Isbn Type
(paperback)
Other physical details
illustrations
Label
Larrikins, bush tales & other great Australian stories, Graham Seal
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-299)
Carrier category
volume
Content category
  • still image
  • text
Contents
1. Wide brown land -- 2. Upon the fatal shore -- 3. Plains of promise -- 4. A fair go -- 5. How we travel the land -- 6. Doing it tough -- 7. Home of the weird -- 8. Romancing the swag -- 9. After the Kellys -- 10. The child in the bush -- 11. Larger than life -- 12. Working for a laugh
Control code
000053732598
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xv, 299 pages
Isbn
9781743319963
Isbn Type
(paperback)
Other physical details
illustrations

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