Download or read book On the Wallaby The Diary of a Queensland Swagman written by Edward S Sorenson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'On the Wallaby, The Diary of a Queensland Swagman' is an adventure novel written in first-person perspective by Edward Sorenson. This is a plain bush yarn, relating in a humorous vein the experiences and adventures of a young man, who, finding himself stranded in Brisbane, where he knew no one, shouldered his swag and struck out into the bush to look for a job. His track from Breakfast Creek to beyond the Maranoa River, may be traced on the map, for he deals only with real places—and real people—and what he goes through is what the majority of swag men go through. Always an optimist, he sees the humor of the situations, and his narrative is embellished with details of bushcraft, and with the yarns and the fun of campfire and track.
Download or read book Quinton s Rouseabout and Other Stories written by Edward S Sorenson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Quinton's Rouseabout and Other Stories" from 1908 is a short story collection from the prominent Australian writer Edward Sorenson. His topics are Australian wildlife, life in the bush, and gold mines, where Sorenson spent a considerable part of his young years. The book contains many of his famous stories as "The Man in the Mountain," "Bandy Hollow," "Under the Gum Tree," and others.
Download or read book Spotty the Bower Bird and Other Stories written by Edward S Sorenson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of stories inspired by Edward Sorenson's experience in the bush. The book follows the lives and habits of nine of Australia's incredible native animals. The book contains:Spotty, the BowerBird - Quiyan, the Possum - Jack, the Kookaburra - Warrigal, the Dingo - Bluey, the Wren - Kojurrie, the Goanna - Karaway, the Cockatoo - Booraby, the Koala - Brolga and Jabiru.
Download or read book Spinifex and Sand written by David Wynford Carnegie and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pt. 2, p.35-36; Near Mount Quinn, brush fences set up to trap wallabies, native grave described; p.47-53; Water holes at Mount Luck, native camps; Pt. 5; Notes on previous explorers in the interior; employment of natives by expeditions; Native taken prisoner to act as guide to find water (Victoria Desert); Empress Spring - native camps, native cairns, 8 words listed with meanings; native well near Browne Range; Camp - implements - bark coolamons, wells, wind-breaks, camp lay-out, grindstones, yam sticks, plant foods; kurdaitcha shoes found; physical appearance of natives; method of cooking kangaroo rats, lizards; pearl shell pubic covering traded from coast 500 miles distant, firesticks carried, sporrans or tassels made of various materials; Chap. 11; Natives encountered at Wilsons Cliffs, searching for water, manufacture of chewing ball - native tobacoo; Helena Spring, 7 native words with meanings; Chap. 13; Shelter described, native with scarifications and painted body; native wells; spears, wommeras, shields and short throwing sticks carried by natives (near Southesk Tablelands); native village near Mount Ernest, wurlies, pronounced Jewish features of Aborigines, hair style; Chap. 17; Creek Aborigines treatment of prisoners - chains used; description od corroboree (Emu), body decoration; Appendix to pt. 5; Diagrams and description of weapons; Spears Kimberley and Desert - method of throwing; wommera; tomahawks - Desert; boomerangs; clubs and throwing sticks; shields, quartz knife, ceremonial sticks; rain-making boards, message sticks; brief notes on marriage laws (with tables); p.372; Method of catching ducks; p.374; 12 words with meanings from Sturt Creek area; p.380-411; Encounters with natives west of Mount Webb - wells, notes on trading.
Download or read book The Amateur Tramp written by Colin Choat and published by . This book was released on 2018-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aidan De Brune was the first person to walk around the perimeter of Australia. He set off in 1921, unaccompanied and unassisted and walked 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometres) from Sydney to Sydney, anticlockwise. Everywhere he walked, he asked people to sign his travel diary, as evidence of his presence in the places he visited. He was also a journalist and he regularly wrote articles during his walk, which appeared in the Sydney Daily Mail and other newspapers.He was a prolific writer of serialised mystery stories, which were syndicated in newspapers throughout Australia and New Zealand. He was also an accomplished musician who gave music lessons and at one time played piano accompaniments to silent films in London.
Download or read book How to Cook a Galah written by Laurel Evelyn Dyson and published by Lothian Children's Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of Australian stories and recipes contained within a history of Australian cooking and eating habits, from colonial times to the present. Includes photos, source list, further reading and index. Author is Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney.
Download or read book I Recall Collections and Recollections written by Robert Henderson Croll and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Recall: Collections and Recollections is a memoir by Robert Henderson Croll. Croll was an Australian author, lyricist, bushwalker, and civic servant. Excerpt: "Central Australia, where I have now been five times, was long a place of desire. When my Sister Elizabeth and her husband, Albert Watts, went to live at Quorn, a township sitting at the foot of the Flinders Range in South Australia, I paid her two visits. They quickened my wish to see more of the remarkable country on the edge of which Quorn is placed. That was some forty years ago. The first, a Spring journey, left two vivid memories. One is of the seemingly endless fields of young wheat which made much of South Australia so beautiful just then; the other is of a shooting trip to which we were invited. Our hosts were two young men of the district, tall and powerful, sons of a German settler. The conveyance was a light open cart with one fixed seat which held the two brothers. Behind them, a board rested its ends on the sides of the cart and was secured to the front seat by a stout rope."
Download or read book Aboriginal Placenames written by Luise Hercus and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aboriginal approaches to the naming of places across Australia differ radically from the official introduced Anglo-Australian system. However, many of these earlier names have been incorporated into contemporary nomenclature, with considerable reinterpretations of their function and form. Recently, state jurisdictions have encouraged the adoption of a greater number of Indigenous names, sometimes alongside the accepted Anglo-Australian terms, around Sydney Harbour, for example. In some cases, the use of an introduced name, such as Gove, has been contested by local Indigenous people. The 19 studies brought together in this book present an overview of current issues involving Indigenous placenames across the whole of Australia, drawing on the disciplines of geography, linguistics, history, and anthropology. They include meticulous studies of historical records, and perspectives stemming from contemporary Indigenous communities. The book includes a wealth of documentary information on some 400 specific placenames, including those of Sydney Harbour, the Blue Mountains, Canberra, western Victoria, the Lake Eyre district, the Victoria River District, and southwestern Cape York Peninsula.
Download or read book The Daughter of Time written by Josephine Tey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world's most heinous villains, a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother's children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the usurpers of England's throne? Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard Plantagenet really was and who killed the Princes in the Tower.
Download or read book Australian Words and Their Origins written by Joan Hughes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a concise edition of the Australian National Dictionary (OUP 1989) which was hailed as a major asset for readers studying Australian literature that made all earlier dictionaries of Australian English obsolete. The volume contains nearly as many headwords as the original edition, yet provides fewer collations, and indicates the first recorded, and most recent, use of a word. It retains the parent volume's comprehensive coverage of uniquely Australian words and phrases; words for indigenous flora, fauna, and pastimes; and Aboriginal terms.
Download or read book Annals of Australian Literature written by Joy W. Hooton and published by Melbourne, Australia : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is both an index and a survey of Australian writing from 1789 to 1988, supplementing and expanding Grahame Johnston's original compilation published in 1970. The editors have interpreted literature in a broad sense, including such genres as history, biography, bibliography, correspondence, autobiography, and travel writing as well as poetry, fiction, and drama. Although the listings are necessarily selective, many new titles for the period covered by Johnston's edition have been added.
Download or read book Country Australia written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Open Road in Victoria written by Robert Henderson Croll and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Austral English written by Edward Ellis Morris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first scholarly dictionary of Australian and New Zealand English, including loan words from indigenous languages, originally published in 1898.
Download or read book Jondaryan Station written by Jan Walker and published by St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia ; New York : University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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