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 246
... frontiersman the supreme compliment of imitating , often unconsciously , his ... noble savages like the inhabitants of the Hesperides and ' hard ' ones like ... noble savage , of the South Seas and elsewhere , preceded nineteenth ...
... frontiersman the supreme compliment of imitating , often unconsciously , his ... noble savages like the inhabitants of the Hesperides and ' hard ' ones like ... noble savage , of the South Seas and elsewhere , preceded nineteenth ...
Page 249
... frontiersman should be an uncultivated workman . In Australia , too , the first signs of the new attitude to frontiers- men appeared in the same decade 1820-30 . Settlers and Convicts was not published until 1847 ... NOBLE FRONTIERSMEN 249.
... frontiersman should be an uncultivated workman . In Australia , too , the first signs of the new attitude to frontiers- men appeared in the same decade 1820-30 . Settlers and Convicts was not published until 1847 ... NOBLE FRONTIERSMEN 249.
Page 255
... frontiersman was necessarily , in this sense , the typical representative of his countrymen , but he does not seem to have been at all conscious of the underlying ... frontier type which Turner so much admired - ' TWO NOBLE FRONTIERSMEN 255.
... frontiersman was necessarily , in this sense , the typical representative of his countrymen , but he does not seem to have been at all conscious of the underlying ... frontier type which Turner so much admired - ' TWO NOBLE FRONTIERSMEN 255.
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
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