Author: Eric Harding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bushrangers
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Bogong Jack, the Gentleman Bushranger
Author: Eric Harding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bushrangers
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bushrangers
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Man Who Lost Himself
Author: Robyn Annear
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1921799889
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
When Tom Castro declared himself to be Roger, the Tichborne heir, and headed for London to claim his inheritance, not even Roger’s mother could tell them apart. By 1871 he was the most notorious celebrity in Great Britain or Australia. But who was he? And what was his story?
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1921799889
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
When Tom Castro declared himself to be Roger, the Tichborne heir, and headed for London to claim his inheritance, not even Roger’s mother could tell them apart. By 1871 he was the most notorious celebrity in Great Britain or Australia. But who was he? And what was his story?
Australian Folklore
Author:
Publisher: Melbourne : Lansdowne
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Who was ‘Anzac mac’? ‘Blue Bob of Borroloola’? ‘Crooked Mick of the Speewah’? How did the terms pommy, jackeroo and ‘cocky-farmer’ originate? What is the meaning of phrases like ‘Beyond the Black Stump’, ‘It’s a find day for travelling’ and ‘To give someone the drum’? Australian folklore has all the answers. It is the most comprehensive collection of Australian lore, legends, traditions, ballads and popular sayings ever published.
Publisher: Melbourne : Lansdowne
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Who was ‘Anzac mac’? ‘Blue Bob of Borroloola’? ‘Crooked Mick of the Speewah’? How did the terms pommy, jackeroo and ‘cocky-farmer’ originate? What is the meaning of phrases like ‘Beyond the Black Stump’, ‘It’s a find day for travelling’ and ‘To give someone the drum’? Australian folklore has all the answers. It is the most comprehensive collection of Australian lore, legends, traditions, ballads and popular sayings ever published.
A Bushranging Bibliography
Australian Book Review
A Dictionary of Australian Folklore
Author: Bill Wannan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
"... Comprehensive collection of Australian lore, legends, traditions, ballads and popular sayings ... It is more than an anthology. It is the first attempt to systematically collect and annotate the whole field of Australian traditional folklore. Documentary source material has been supplied wherever it exists and this, together with oral and personal contributions, provides a rich source of reference material. The book is illustrated throughout and contains many rare contemporary prints and photographs. It is a mine of information and reference material for the student, writer or browsing reader. An assemblage of: legends, ballads, folk heroes, eccentrics, ghosts, country cures and remedies, bush cooking, toasts, bush jingles, sobriquets, mythical beasts and birds, familiar quotations, lost reefs and buried treasure, popular allusions, dreams, omens and prophecies, place names." -- Inside front cover.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
"... Comprehensive collection of Australian lore, legends, traditions, ballads and popular sayings ... It is more than an anthology. It is the first attempt to systematically collect and annotate the whole field of Australian traditional folklore. Documentary source material has been supplied wherever it exists and this, together with oral and personal contributions, provides a rich source of reference material. The book is illustrated throughout and contains many rare contemporary prints and photographs. It is a mine of information and reference material for the student, writer or browsing reader. An assemblage of: legends, ballads, folk heroes, eccentrics, ghosts, country cures and remedies, bush cooking, toasts, bush jingles, sobriquets, mythical beasts and birds, familiar quotations, lost reefs and buried treasure, popular allusions, dreams, omens and prophecies, place names." -- Inside front cover.
The Passing Guest
Author: John Stanton Davis Mellick
Publisher: St Lucia ; New York : University of Queensland Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher: St Lucia ; New York : University of Queensland Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Alps at the Crossroads
Author: Dick Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Australian National Bibliography
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description