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 79
... Up - country life had one other attraction which , though immaterial , seems to have been very important . It is easy , and at present fashionable , to wax ironical over the freedom and simplic- ity of life in the ... UP THE COUNTRY ' 79.
... Up - country life had one other attraction which , though immaterial , seems to have been very important . It is easy , and at present fashionable , to wax ironical over the freedom and simplic- ity of life in the ... UP THE COUNTRY ' 79.
Page 81
... up country to find work , what- ever their fears may have been . And there is evidence that many of them made good shepherds , especially townsmen and sedentary workers , who had no old - world preconceptions to ... UP THE COUNTRY ' 81.
... up country to find work , what- ever their fears may have been . And there is evidence that many of them made good shepherds , especially townsmen and sedentary workers , who had no old - world preconceptions to ... UP THE COUNTRY ' 81.
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... country towns , it may be said to have brought the bush- men into closer touch with organized religion , but this was a long- term process . At first the effect of the discoveries was to accentuate the cynical up - country attitude to ...
... country towns , it may be said to have brought the bush- men into closer touch with organized religion , but this was a long- term process . At first the effect of the discoveries was to accentuate the cynical up - country attitude to ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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