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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... interior of the state is separated from the station country of New South Wales and Queensland by nothing but a line on the map . Since occupation of the interior began a hundred and fifty years ago almost every observer of outback life ...
... interior of the state is separated from the station country of New South Wales and Queensland by nothing but a line on the map . Since occupation of the interior began a hundred and fifty years ago almost every observer of outback life ...
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... interior , subtly influenced those of the whole population . Yet for long this was largely an unconscious process recorded in folk- lore and to some extent in popular speech , but largely unreflected in formal literature . Towards the ...
... interior , subtly influenced those of the whole population . Yet for long this was largely an unconscious process recorded in folk- lore and to some extent in popular speech , but largely unreflected in formal literature . Towards the ...
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... interior . On the other hand , what Harris called the ' difficulties ' of outback life were abund- ant . They made the practice of a collectivist ' mateship ' essential , just as the abundance of basic foodstuffs made it possible . The ...
... interior . On the other hand , what Harris called the ' difficulties ' of outback life were abund- ant . They made the practice of a collectivist ' mateship ' essential , just as the abundance of basic foodstuffs made it possible . The ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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