Title The electronic swagman : a man, a dog, the road and a lot of dead people / Raymond Hawkins

Published Braddon, A.C.T. : Halstead, [2012] Braddon, Australian Capital Territory : Halstead Press, [2012] ©2012 ©2012

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MELB	910.92 Hawkin Haw/Esa		AVAILABLE

Description 142 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 25 cm regular print Contents Leaving -- Blue Mountains -- Blackheath Cemetery -- Go west -- Gardens of stone -- Childhood -- Bathurst Cemetery -- Bushrangers -- St. Aloysius College -- The Dunera boys -- Lake Mungo -- My father -- Dadirri -- Menindee to Wilcannia -- Broken Hill -- Drugs -- Broken Hill Cemetery -- Yunta -- Rock and Roll -- Flinders to Farina -- Marree-Lake Eyre -- Recovery -- Coward Springs to Coober Pedy -- Coober Pedy -- The dingo fence - Moon plain - The Painted Desert -- Oddna bloody Datta --- The Sydney Opera House and beyond -- Salvation -- Mum and grief -- The duck/quack kids -- The Alice -- Stuart Town Cemetery -- We go travelling -- Hermannsburg Cemetery -- Finishing up -- Epilogue Six months later Summary This is a raw memior of a complex life, a search for home, a uelogy to lonely souls buried in outback grave and an ode to a beautiful dog. The present is the journey of a man. The past is Raymond's memior revealed with tales of counter culture, drugs, and his encounters with diversed characters all around Australia. This book also seeks to capture Australia ; its complexity, characters, landscape and paradoxes Analysis Australian Audience Adult Subject Albrecht, F. W. (Friedrich Wilhelm), 1894-1984 Booth, Stephen. Hawkins, Raymond -- Travel. Hawkins, Raymond. Kriss, David Jungala Malbunka, Ezekiel Malbunka, Herman Pappin, Gary Pappin, Mary Pearce, Betty Possum Tjapaltjarri, Johnny Stockton, Eugene (Eugene Daniel) Strehlow, C. (Carl), 1871-1922. Strehlow, T. G. H. (Theodor George Henry), 1908-1978. Ungunmerr-Baumann, Miriam-Rose, 1950- Wilson, John. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Social conditions. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Social conditions. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- South Australia -- Social conditions. Pets and travel. Travel -- Biography. SUBJECT Australia -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009579 Australia -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315 -- Anecdotes. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001294 Northern Territory http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035353 -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278 Genre/Form Biographies. Anecdotes. ISBN 9781920831974 (paperback)

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