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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... course , much worse ; hence children learn the vilest expressions , and it is fortunate if not equally vile ideas . The reminiscences of the son of a Moreton Bay pioneer show that the ideas thus imbibed were not always vile , at least ...
... course , much worse ; hence children learn the vilest expressions , and it is fortunate if not equally vile ideas . The reminiscences of the son of a Moreton Bay pioneer show that the ideas thus imbibed were not always vile , at least ...
Page 115
... course really feasible , just as the great differences between their culture and that of the colonists made it almost inevitable . For British immigrants , the second course was natural and easy . There was no language barrier , and the ...
... course really feasible , just as the great differences between their culture and that of the colonists made it almost inevitable . For British immigrants , the second course was natural and easy . There was no language barrier , and the ...
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... course of ' colonization ' , administered by old Australians and the very conditions of bush life which had already helped to mould the outlook of the old hands . Most of the middle - class immigrants probably returned in time to the ...
... course of ' colonization ' , administered by old Australians and the very conditions of bush life which had already helped to mould the outlook of the old hands . Most of the middle - class immigrants probably returned in time to the ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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