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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... hands , and the foot of each pressed to the foot of another . • So was fealty to their leader , honour to one another , plighted . The Convict Oath was a terrible thing ; it was never broken without occasioning death to someone - not ...
... hands , and the foot of each pressed to the foot of another . • So was fealty to their leader , honour to one another , plighted . The Convict Oath was a terrible thing ; it was never broken without occasioning death to someone - not ...
Page 75
... hands than any other . In Port Phillip , wrote Joyce , ' there were two classes of shearers , the Derwenters from Van Diemen's Land , and the Sydneys . The former were the better shearers but the latter were the faster . ' The fact that ...
... hands than any other . In Port Phillip , wrote Joyce , ' there were two classes of shearers , the Derwenters from Van Diemen's Land , and the Sydneys . The former were the better shearers but the latter were the faster . ' The fact that ...
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... hands ' in the colony , and they endeavour to gain this point by all manner of expedients , by encouraging the growth of their beards and moustaches to a prodigious length , as well as by affecting a colonial style of dress , and ...
... hands ' in the colony , and they endeavour to gain this point by all manner of expedients , by encouraging the growth of their beards and moustaches to a prodigious length , as well as by affecting a colonial style of dress , and ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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