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 164
... seen , bred of adaptation to the new envir- onment . Adaptation , of necessity , proceeded faster on the fron- tiers of settlement than in the relatively civilized coastal areas near Sydney . Bushrangers necessarily exemplified , in its ...
... seen , bred of adaptation to the new envir- onment . Adaptation , of necessity , proceeded faster on the fron- tiers of settlement than in the relatively civilized coastal areas near Sydney . Bushrangers necessarily exemplified , in its ...
Page 191
... seen through different coloured spectacles . A more balanced account of him is given in C. E. W. Bean's On the Wool Track . The improvement in drinking habits was an index of the bush- man's increasing self - respect and of his ...
... seen through different coloured spectacles . A more balanced account of him is given in C. E. W. Bean's On the Wool Track . The improvement in drinking habits was an index of the bush- man's increasing self - respect and of his ...
Page 258
... seen , however , that this feature was also the most recently acquired , and already the events of the last war , no ... seen that the Australian tradition is as old as our history . We have seen that it perpetuates as ideals the ...
... seen , however , that this feature was also the most recently acquired , and already the events of the last war , no ... seen that the Australian tradition is as old as our history . We have seen that it perpetuates as ideals the ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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