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Author: Patsy Kemp Publisher: Brolga Publishing ISBN: 0648697010 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 241
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Drovers hold an iconic place in our Australian identity, due to the courage and perseverance needed to transport cattle and sheep hundreds of kilometres through rural and outback areas. But what of the women and children who travelled with them?
Author: Patsy Kemp Publisher: Brolga Publishing ISBN: 0648697010 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 241
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Drovers hold an iconic place in our Australian identity, due to the courage and perseverance needed to transport cattle and sheep hundreds of kilometres through rural and outback areas. But what of the women and children who travelled with them?
Author: Leah Purcell Publisher: Penguin Group Australia ISBN: 1760144266 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 288
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Deep in the heart of Australia’s high country, along an ancient, hidden track, lives Molly Johnson and her four surviving children, another on the way. Husband Joe is away months at a time droving livestock up north, leaving his family in the bush to fend for itself. Molly’s children are her world, and life is hard and precarious with only their dog, Alligator, and a shotgun for protection – but it can be harder when Joe’s around. At just twelve years of age Molly’s eldest son Danny is the true man of the house, determined to see his mother and siblings safe – from raging floodwaters, hunger and intruders, man and reptile. Danny is mature beyond his years, but there are some things no child should see. He knows more than most just what it takes to be a drover’s wife. One night under the moon’s watch, Molly has a visitor of a different kind – a black ‘story keeper’, Yadaka. He’s on the run from authorities in the nearby town, and exchanges kindness for shelter. Both know that justice in this nation caught between two worlds can be as brutal as its landscape. But in their short time together, Yadaka shows Molly a secret truth, and the strength to imagine a different path. Full of fury and power, Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson is a brave reimagining of the Henry Lawson short story that has become an Australian classic. Brilliantly plotted, it is a compelling thriller of our pioneering past that confronts head-on issues of today: race, gender, violence and inheritance.
Author: Patricia Blackwell Publisher: Brolga Pub. ISBN: 9781925367751 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 300
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Drovers hold an iconic place in our Australian identity, due to the courage and perseverance needed to transport cattle and sheep hundreds of kilometres through rural and outback areas. But what of the women and children who travelled with them?
Author: Frank Moorhouse Publisher: Random House Australia ISBN: 0143784838 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 368
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Since Henry Lawson wrote his story 'The Drover’s Wife' in 1892, Australian writers, painters, performers and photographers have created a wonderful tradition of drover's wife works, stories and images. The Russell Drysdale painting from 1945 extended the mythology and it, too, has become an Australian icon. Other versions of the Lawson story have been written by Murray Bail, Barbara Jefferis, Mandy Sayer, David Ireland, Madeleine Watts and others, up to the present, including Leah Purcell's play and Ryan O’Neill’s graphic novel. In essays and commentary, Frank Moorhouse examines our ongoing fascination with this story and has collected some of the best pieces of writing on the subject. This remarkable, gorgeous book is, he writes, 'a monument to the drovers' wives'.
Author: Susan Brocker Publisher: HarperCollins Australia ISBN: 1775490025 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 198
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'Tell us where you've got the nugget and this will go well for you,' the tall man with the horrible voice rasped. Rumour is flying around the west coast gold fields that tom McGee has struck it rich and found a nugget of gold as big as a man's fist. So no one is surprised when next his campsite is found wrecked and abandoned. Men have been killed for a lot less on the tough goldfields of 1860s New Zealand. But one person is convinced tom is not dead. His headstrong daughter, Charlotte. Solving the mystery is not her first task, though. First, she must get to the coast. A skilful horse rider, she disguises herself as a boy and joins a cattle drive across the Southern Alps. to survive the dangerous drive over Arthur's Pass and to keep her identity hidden from the vicious trail boss, she'll need the help of her dog, her horse, and her father's friend, tama. She knows she can do it - she has to - but what will she find? And will her new American friend, Joseph, help or hinder her quest? Charlie is in for the ride of her life - and the stakes couldn't be higher.
Author: Walter Scott Publisher: ISBN: Category : Scotland Languages : en Pages : 392
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Comprised of two short stories 'The Highland Widow' and 'The Two Drovers' and a novella 'The Surgeon's Daughter', this is Scott's only collection of shorter fiction. Each story is set in the second half of the eighteenth century and deals with the exodus of Scots from their post-Union, post-Culloden homeland to seek fortune elsewhere.
Author: Patricia Blackwell Publisher: ISBN: 9780648958000 Category : Languages : en Pages : 190
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Drovers hold an iconic place in Australian Identity, due to the courage and perserverance needed to transport cattle and sheep hundreds of miles through rural New South Wales and Queensland! Smoko was on the roadside, lamb chops grilled over the open fire on an upside-down camp oven lid. What of the women and children who travelled with the Boss Drover? How do they fare? Patsy tells a humerous story as a 'Drover's Daughter living in the Bush,' and her life while travelling with six siblings, the odd workman, numerous horses and dogs. One of her fondest memories was her father plonking her on the back of a sheep and telling her to 'ride the bastard over the bridge love.' So here was was five years old Patsy, clinging on to the wool of the sheep as it walked over the bridge, with the flowing water just 20 feet below the bridge. The Education Deptartment eventually caught up with the family, the kids whom to date had not being schooled, so the kids had to do schooling by correspondence while moving every day and living out of the back of a truck. Wood had to gathered each day to cook the meals and on cold winter nights to keep the family warm as they sat around the fire eating their meal. Meals was finished with a mug of tea out of the 'billy' simmering away, hanging of the tripod dangling over the fire. The best times when another droving caught up with them when the kids could play in the dark and the adults playing cards and yarning into the night with the kerosene lantern helping the light from the fire which also kept the card players warm, this could last into the night but everyone was out of bed at dawn to start the day with the stock.
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