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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Page 57
... felt ineffably superior to the free immigrant . Nevertheless , even an old Irish lag obviously could not have felt as completely at home as did the native - born Australians . Of these Harris noted that by the 1830's ' fellowship of ...
... felt ineffably superior to the free immigrant . Nevertheless , even an old Irish lag obviously could not have felt as completely at home as did the native - born Australians . Of these Harris noted that by the 1830's ' fellowship of ...
Page 65
... felt a not less justified contempt for the ill - bred behaviour by which many Currency Lads felt it proper to demonstrate their heritage . This peculiarly Australian form of hooliganism was closely associated with another widely noticed ...
... felt a not less justified contempt for the ill - bred behaviour by which many Currency Lads felt it proper to demonstrate their heritage . This peculiarly Australian form of hooliganism was closely associated with another widely noticed ...
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... felt by masters and men alike . Haygarth communicates the feeling very accurately in the following passage : This sensation of absolute freedom , which is one of the chief attractions of this sort of life , some might say its only one ...
... felt by masters and men alike . Haygarth communicates the feeling very accurately in the following passage : This sensation of absolute freedom , which is one of the chief attractions of this sort of life , some might say its only one ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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