Australian Autobiographical Narratives
Title | Australian Autobiographical Narratives PDF eBook |
Author | Kay Walsh |
Publisher | National Library Australia |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780642107947 |
Australian Autobiographical Narratives Volume 2 and its partner Volume 1 provide researchers with detailed annotations of published Australian autobiographical writing. Both volumes are a rich resource of the European settlement of Australia. Theis selection concentrates on the post-gold rush period, providing portraits of 533 individuals, from amateur explorers to politicians, from pioneer settlers to sportsmen. Like Volume 1, it offers an intimate and absorbing insight into nineteenth-century Australia.
The Journal of a Jackaroo
Title | The Journal of a Jackaroo PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Hives |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 1930 |
Genre | Agricultural laborers |
ISBN |
Chap. 5; Herbert R. area, cannibalism, food gathering & hunting, shelters, fires, weapons (sport & fighting), secret rites, superstitious beliefs, E.S.P. outlined, cave paintings Murray & Herbert R. district; Chap. 6; Attack, Herbert R.; Chap. 9; Police retaliation, cannibalism & Chinese killings, clashes; Chap. 10; Clashes Upper Herbert R., Mullah tribesman; Chap. 11-12; Tracking ability, massacre at Greendale, retaliation by Webster brothers.
Jackaroo
Title | Jackaroo PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Thornton |
Publisher | Penguin Group Australia |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 2011-06-27 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1742533558 |
From choirboy to cowboy . . . In 1967, fresh from boarding school humiliations, and having lost his father to alcoholism, gangly teen Michael Thornton was packed off to a tough sheep and cattle station to work as a jackaroo. He was to learn the wool trade from the lamb up, under a boss legendary for working his farmhands in an almost military regimen. Tasked with the dirty, disgusting and downright dangerous jobs, jackaroos are the dogsbodies of our farms. But at Habbies Howe, in central Victoria, somewhere between castrating lambs with his teeth and hauling backbreaking sacks of fertiliser for no obvious purpose, Michael discovered inner strength, and the friendship and male role models he'd craved. He also earned respect – enough to later walk into a job with the nation's most famous farmer, the Defence Minister and future PM Malcolm Fraser. In Jackaroo, Thornton recalls his years learning the ropes in an era when farm work was still done on horseback. Engaging, candid and often funny, his memoir reveals the hard working lives of the unsung all-rounders of the country. 'Engaging and energetic' The Australian
Australians and the Gold Rush
Title | Australians and the Gold Rush PDF eBook |
Author | Jay Monaghan |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Recent Geographical Literature, Maps and Photographs
Title | Recent Geographical Literature, Maps and Photographs PDF eBook |
Author | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 710 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Geography |
ISBN |
Recent Geographical Literature, Maps, and Photographs Added to the Society's Collection
Title | Recent Geographical Literature, Maps, and Photographs Added to the Society's Collection PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 722 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Geography |
ISBN |
The Jackaroo
Title | The Jackaroo PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 191 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780473089146 |