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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... frontiersman the supreme compliment of imitating , often unconsciously , his manners and outlook ? Turner was perhaps too much a man of his age for the question to have occurred to him , at any rate in the form in which it may occur to ...
... frontiersman the supreme compliment of imitating , often unconsciously , his manners and outlook ? Turner was perhaps too much a man of his age for the question to have occurred to him , at any rate in the form in which it may occur to ...
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... frontiersmen which , by the time of H. W. Haygarth's Recollections of Bush Life in Aus- tralia ( 1848 ) , was becoming quite common among writers . Two passages which actually compare the life of the Australian frontiersman with that of ...
... frontiersmen which , by the time of H. W. Haygarth's Recollections of Bush Life in Aus- tralia ( 1848 ) , was becoming quite common among writers . Two passages which actually compare the life of the Australian frontiersman with that of ...
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... frontiersman in Australia , he was a fervent admirer of Kipling , the apostle of the imperial frontiersman . He was a friend and admirer , not only of the democratic ( with a small ' d ' ) Woodrow Wilson , but also of Theodore Roosevelt ...
... frontiersman in Australia , he was a fervent admirer of Kipling , the apostle of the imperial frontiersman . He was a friend and admirer , not only of the democratic ( with a small ' d ' ) Woodrow Wilson , but also of Theodore Roosevelt ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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