On The Wallaby The Diary Of A Queensland Swagman

Author : Edward S Sorenson
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547322320

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On the Wallaby, The Diary of a Queensland Swagman by Edward S Sorenson Pdf

'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.

Author : Edward S Sorenson
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338096371

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Spotty the Bower-Bird and Other Stories by Edward S Sorenson Pdf

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.

Author : Edward S Sorenson
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338092298

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Quinton's Rouseabout and Other Stories by Edward S Sorenson Pdf

"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.

Author : David Wynford Carnegie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Coolgardie Region (W.A.)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044082373382

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Spinifex and Sand by David Wynford Carnegie Pdf

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.

Author : Colin Choat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0646989375

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The Amateur Tramp by Colin Choat Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Henderson Croll
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338068507

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I Recall: Collections and Recollections by Robert Henderson Croll Pdf

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."

Author : Laurel Evelyn Dyson
Publisher : Lothian Children's Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cooking
ISBN : UCSD:31822031042849

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How to Cook a Galah by Laurel Evelyn Dyson Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Australia
ISBN : PSU:000016245952

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Country Australia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Luise Hercus,Harold Koch
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781921666094

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Aboriginal Placenames by Luise Hercus,Harold Koch Pdf

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.

Author : John Watsford
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1377414167

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Glorious Gospel Triumphs: As Seen in My Life and Work in Fiji and Australasia by John Watsford Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Martin Boyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : 0975086022

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Lucinda Brayford by Martin Boyd Pdf

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Author : Joy W. Hooton,Harry P. Heseltine
Publisher : Melbourne, Australia : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004051335

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Annals of Australian Literature by Joy W. Hooton,Harry P. Heseltine Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Henderson Croll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Hiking
ISBN : OCLC:1057927012

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The Open Road in Victoria by Robert Henderson Croll Pdf

Author : Edward Ellis Morris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108028790

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Austral English by Edward Ellis Morris Pdf

The first scholarly dictionary of Australian and New Zealand English, including loan words from indigenous languages, originally published in 1898.

Author : Josephine Tey
Publisher : Random House
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780099536826

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The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey Pdf

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.