| Description |
xi, 347 pages ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The landscape of the imagination / Gerald Murnane -- The romance of the swag / Henry Lawson -- Land of the delicate scrub / C.E.W. Bean -- Scorpions by the thousand / W.W. Ammon -- Breakdown / Jonathan Green -- The Waaia races / Patsy Adam-Smith -- A transcontinental ramble / G.E. "Chinese" Morrison -- Bush pubs : oases on the plains / Jock Marshall -- Bugger Australia altogether / E.M. "Mick" Kelsall -- The big forest of Wang Wauk / Les Murray -- The long drought / Geoffrey Blainey -- The sugar lands / Alan Frost -- First time in the bush / Louisa Clifton -- An old, old country / Douglas Stewart -- A bishop's view of bullock driving / E.H. Burgmann -- In a wet season / Henry Lawson -- The rising of the fish / Eric Rolls -- Bushman junior / Edward S. Sorenson -- Storm over Ayers Rock / Richard Piesse -- Bathurst / D'Arcy Niland -- Borroloola / Keith Willey -- Cross-country caravan / Alan Marshall -- Birds and snakes / Gordon Wentworth Broughton -- Crossing the dead heart / C.T. Madigan -- Lost in friendly territory / Roger McDonald -- The way of wild pigs / Henry G. Lamond -- Across Australia by car / Geoffrey Dutton -- The flowers of Kosciusko / Edna Walling -- The old bush fence / Bernard Cronin -- The trouble with merinos / A.B. "Banjo" Paterson -- Timbergetters and scrub dwellers / Eric Rolls -- Cheating the flames of death / Gary Hughes -- The piners' life / Richard Flanagan -- Head stockman at Wave Hill / Tom Cole -- Fettlers : a particular breed / Robin Bromby -- Crocodile hunters / Malcolm Douglas -- Games of the bush children / Mary Fullerton -- The brumby mare / Brian Taylor -- The horse will save you / Leo Rosten (as told to John Ross) -- My wild life / A.B. Facey -- The brightest place on earth / Tim Flannery -- Ceremony / Ros Moriarty -- Wilderness : a personal account / Chris Bell -- The dingo / Bill Harney -- A desperate rescue / Geoff Hudspeth (as told to Tim Bowden) -- Patrolling the world's longest fence / Arthur Upfield -- Close to nature / John Landy -- Walking on water / Bill King -- Settlers and snakes / Miles Franklin -- An angel in the Queensland floods / Tony Wright |
| Summary |
A collection of beautiful and lyrical Australian writing about the bush. It includes some of our famous 'bush bards', such as Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, as well as some more modern writers, like Richard Flanagan and Robyn Davidson |
| Analysis |
Australian |
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Australian literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Australian literature.
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Country life -- Australia -- Social life and customs.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100473
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Australia -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100473
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
Ross, John, 1938 September 19-
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| ISBN |
9780670076413 (paperback) |
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