The Australian LegendThis book traces the considerable influence of nomad pastoral workers, who provided the work force in the nineteenth-century outback, on the Australian outlook and way of life. |
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... cities or in Great Britain . The rather complex relationship between masters and men was thus described by an English visitor in 1903 : It is sometimes said that in Australia there are no class distinctions . It would probably be truer ...
... cities or in Great Britain . The rather complex relationship between masters and men was thus described by an English visitor in 1903 : It is sometimes said that in Australia there are no class distinctions . It would probably be truer ...
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... cities ' . Yet he goes on to proclaim that even city - bred Australians were bushmen at heart , equipped with all the bushmen's virtues and vices - though , to the eye of faith , the latter were inconsiderable . Many of the commanding ...
... cities ' . Yet he goes on to proclaim that even city - bred Australians were bushmen at heart , equipped with all the bushmen's virtues and vices - though , to the eye of faith , the latter were inconsiderable . Many of the commanding ...
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... cities were just like home ' . The disappointment this circumstance caused to the romantically inclined is well brought out by John Henderson : I confess that , notwithstanding its vast extent and population ( considering that it was ...
... cities were just like home ' . The disappointment this circumstance caused to the romantically inclined is well brought out by John Henderson : I confess that , notwithstanding its vast extent and population ( considering that it was ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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