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 62
... young magistrate and two mounted soldiers nearing them from behind at full speed : ' I wonder what's up , Reuben . I'll be hanged if the lobsters haven't got their shells off . There's something afoot that's not easy . ' " They know ...
... young magistrate and two mounted soldiers nearing them from behind at full speed : ' I wonder what's up , Reuben . I'll be hanged if the lobsters haven't got their shells off . There's something afoot that's not easy . ' " They know ...
Page 65
... young Australian is systematically insolent to the new - chum ; so is everyone indeed . How I , who had pretty well run the gauntlet of London life , was branded and fleeced during the first three months of my residence in Sydney ! A ...
... young Australian is systematically insolent to the new - chum ; so is everyone indeed . How I , who had pretty well run the gauntlet of London life , was branded and fleeced during the first three months of my residence in Sydney ! A ...
Page 71
... young Currency Lad , in addition to the two immigrant leaders , Blaxland and Lawson . For the next forty years there was to be a significantly higher proportion of convicts , ex- convicts , and native - born Australians on the expanding ...
... young Currency Lad , in addition to the two immigrant leaders , Blaxland and Lawson . For the next forty years there was to be a significantly higher proportion of convicts , ex- convicts , and native - born Australians on the expanding ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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