The Australian Legend"This book attempts to trace the historical origins and development of the Australian legend or national mystique. It argues that a specifically Australian outlook grew up first and most clearly among the bush workers in the Australian pastoral industry, and that this group has had an influence, completely disproportionate to its numerical and economic strength, on the attitudes of the whole Australian community."--Foreword |
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Russel Braddock Ward. later his mate , an assigned servant , apologized for Harris to a visiting bushranger by saying that he ... later , a grant of 240 acres at Patrick's Plains.21 He was made a constable and , by the end of 1823 , was ...
Russel Braddock Ward. later his mate , an assigned servant , apologized for Harris to a visiting bushranger by saying that he ... later , a grant of 240 acres at Patrick's Plains.21 He was made a constable and , by the end of 1823 , was ...
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... later versions precisely in the way that one would expect . It shows with unusual directness the pride of the old hands in their newly acquired mastery of the outback environment and what one might call the ballad's didactic function of ...
... later versions precisely in the way that one would expect . It shows with unusual directness the pride of the old hands in their newly acquired mastery of the outback environment and what one might call the ballad's didactic function of ...
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... later bushrangers , like their predecessors , were on the whole surprisingly gentlemanly ruffians . Fifty years before Boxall wrote , Marjoribanks considered the ' peculiar institution ' of bushranging with a Radical Whiggish eye ...
... later bushrangers , like their predecessors , were on the whole surprisingly gentlemanly ruffians . Fifty years before Boxall wrote , Marjoribanks considered the ' peculiar institution ' of bushranging with a Radical Whiggish eye ...
Contents
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
THE BUSHMAN COMES OF AGE | 167 |
APOTHEOSIS OF THE NOMAD TRIBE | 192 |
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