Banjo

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Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1743317972
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)

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Book Synopsis Banjo by : Paul Terry

Download or read book Banjo written by Paul Terry and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1886, a nervous young lawyer and aspiring writer met the editor of a radical new paper to discuss the possibility of publishing some poetry. The writer - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson - thought his 'fractured verses' would not stand the test of time. Luckily, the editor thought otherwise and agreed to publish the works. The editor was right, and in the years that followed, Banjo Paterson became Australia's most-loved and influential poet...He created some of our most enduring characters. A business letter to a doubtful debtor gave us 'Clancy of the Overflow', a chat around a campfire at a remote mountain hut might have given birth to 'The Man From Snowy River', and a young woman's tuneful tinkling on a piano helped to create Australia's national song, the unsurpassed 'Waltzing Matilda'...Paterson rubbed shoulders with the famous, the infamous and the influential. In a life that took him from a bush boyhood to the battlefields of South Africa and France, he counted Rudyard Kipling, Harry 'Breaker' Morant and even his rival, Henry Lawson, as friends. He met great men such as Winston Churchill, Rudyard Kipling and the artist Norman Lindsay, but the heroes of his tales were ordinary folk - bushmen, battlers, swaggies, soldiers and farmers' wives. He told their tales of humour, tragedy and triumph set against a landscape that is both grindingly harsh and stunningly beautiful, and his words rolled off Australian tongues for generations...'Banjo' follows the life and inspirations of A.B. Paterson from his birth 150 years ago to his death in 1941. From the political upheaval captured in 'Waltzing Matilda' to the wistful longing for the clean air of the bush in 'Clancy', it meets the men and women who shaped the adolescent Australia as it shook off its convict beginnings to embrace its new place on the world stage. And as it follows in Paterson's footsteps from the outback to the Alps, 'Banjo' revisits an Australia that no longer exists, yet one that defines our national character today.

Henry and Banjo

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Publisher : Hachette Australia
ISBN 13 : 0733633625
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (336 download)

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Book Synopsis Henry and Banjo by : James Knight

Download or read book Henry and Banjo written by James Knight and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating lives and turbulent times of Henry Lawson and Andrew 'Banjo' Paterson - the two men who wrote Australia's story. Today most of us know that Henry Lawson and Andrew 'Banjo' Paterson were famous writers. We know about Matilda, Clancy of the Overflow and the Man from Snowy River; The Drover's Wife, While the Billy Boils and Joe Wilson and his mates, but little else. Here, in a compelling and engaging work, James Knight brings Henry and Banjo's own stories to life. And there is much to tell. Both were country born, just three years and three hundred kilometres apart, Henry on the goldfields of Grenfell and Banjo on a property near Orange, but their paths to literary immortality took very different routes - indeed at times their lives were ones of savage and all too tragic contrasts. Banjo, born into a life of comparative privilege, would rise from country boy to Sydney Grammar student, solicitor, journalist, war correspondent and revered man about town. Henry's formal education only began when his feminist mother finally won her battle for a local school but illness and subsequent deafness would make continuing his lessons difficult, seeing him find work as a labourer, a coach painter and a journalist, all the while wrestling with poverty, alcoholism and mental illness. Both men would become household names during their lifetimes. Both would have regrets. Henry and Banjo details two incredibly fascinating lives and delves into the famous (and not so famous) writings of the two men who had the power to influence and change Australia.

Dispossession and the Making of Jedda

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Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1785273515
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Book Synopsis Dispossession and the Making of Jedda by : Catherine Kevin

Download or read book Dispossession and the Making of Jedda written by Catherine Kevin and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Dispossession and the Making of Jedda (1955)' newly locates the story of the genesis of the iconic 1955 film ‘Jedda’ (dir. Chauvel) and, in turn, ‘Jedda’ becomes a cultural context and point of reference for the history of race relations it tells. It spans the period 1930–1960 but is focused on the 1950s, the decade when Charles Chauvel looked to the ample resources of his friends in the rich pastoral Ngunnawal country of the Yass Valley to make his film. This book has four locations. The homesteads of the wealthy graziers in the Yass Valley and the Hollywood Mission in Yass town are its primary sites. Also relevant are the Sydney of the cultural and moneyed elites, and the Northern Territory where ‘Jedda’ was made. Its narrative weaves together stories of race relations at these four sites, illuminating the film’s motifs as they are played out in the Yass Valley, against a backdrop of Sydney and looking North towards the Territory. It is a reflection on family history and the ways in which the intricacies of race relations can be revealed and concealed by family memory, identity and myth-making. The story of the author, as the great granddaughter, great-niece and cousin of some of those who poured resources into the film, both disrupts and elaborates previously ingrained versions of her family history.

The Story of Australian English

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Publisher : NewSouth
ISBN 13 : 1742241905
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis The Story of Australian English by : Kel Richards

Download or read book The Story of Australian English written by Kel Richards and published by NewSouth. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English language arrived in Australia with the first motley bunch of European settlers on 26 January 1788. Today there is clearly a distinctive Australian regional dialect with its own place among the global family of ‘Englishes’. How did this come about? Where did the distinctive pattern, accent, and verbal inventions that make up Aussie English come from? A lively narrative, this book tells the story of the birth, rise and triumphant progress of the colourful dingo lingo that we know today as Aussie English.

Looking for Rose Paterson

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Publisher : National Library of Australia
ISBN 13 : 064227892X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis Looking for Rose Paterson by : Jennifer Gall

Download or read book Looking for Rose Paterson written by Jennifer Gall and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose Isabella Paterson gave birth to a boy, Barty, in 1864. That child became the famous balladeer, Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson. Barty was the first of seven children who lived on Illalong station, a property near the New South Wales township of Binalong, where Rose spent most of her married life. In this book, we enter into the rustic world of late nineteenth-century pioneers, where women endured continuous cycles of pregnancy, childbirth and recovery, and the constraints of strict social codes. Rose faced the isolation of Illalong - 'this poor old prison of a habitation' - with resolute determination and an incisive wit. Her candid letters, written throughout the 1870s and 1880s, to her younger sister, Nora Murray-Prior, reveal a woman who found comfort in the shared confidences of correspondence and who did not lack for opinions on women's rights, health and education. Here we see a devoted sister, a loyal wife battling domestic drudgery with scarce resources, and an affectionate mother whose parenting approach embraced 'a little judicious neglect & occasional scrubbing'. 'Looking for Rose' recreates the world of Rose Paterson and, within the rhythm of her life, the bush childhood of 'Banjo' Paterson, which ultimately found a place in some of Australia's best-known verses.

New Lives in an Old Land

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004446710
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis New Lives in an Old Land by : Bronwyn Davies

Download or read book New Lives in an Old Land written by Bronwyn Davies and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-turns to the colonisation of New South Wales through the lives of the author’s ancestors. By looking hard and listening carefully, by being prepared not to look away, the author re-thinks the way history might be done.

Song of the Pen

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Song of the Pen by : Andrew Barton Paterson

Download or read book Song of the Pen written by Andrew Barton Paterson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete works of Paterson's literary works of the period 1901-1941.

Banjo Paterson

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Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1742696562
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Banjo Paterson by : Richard Hall

Download or read book Banjo Paterson written by Richard Hall and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banjo Paterson's ballads are as fresh and alive today as they were one hundred years ago. This new and lively selection of poetry and prose brings together all the old classics along with the not-so-well-known and the off-beat, and allows the modern reader to gain a new appreciation of some of Australia's favourite literature.

This is Banjo Paterson

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Publisher : National Library of Australia
ISBN 13 : 0642278989
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis This is Banjo Paterson by : Tania McCartney

Download or read book This is Banjo Paterson written by Tania McCartney and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson loved to write poetry. He loved hunting and fishing and horses, too, especially a horse named Banjo. In this charming picture book, little ones can celebrate the life of a great poet, journalist, bushman and world traveller. Join Banjo, his family, dog and neighbourhood friends, as they recount the life of Banjo Paterson with an afternoon of backyard playtime that truly typifies childhood. At the back of the book, read extracts from some of Banjo's famous poems and look at some historical photographs from the National Library of Australia's collection.

Heartland

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Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 9780868408736
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)

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Book Synopsis Heartland by : George Main

Download or read book Heartland written by George Main and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How do we imagine and engage with the agricultural heartlands of Australia? In the city and the bush, how do we see ourselves in relation to the farmland that nourishes us all? Heartland explores the cultural and historical foundations of ecological change and disorder across the southwest slopes of New South Wales, a rich and productive agricultural region. Rural places are today calling everyone, George Main suggests, into relationships of mutual care."--BOOK JACKET.

The Invisible State

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521522953
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (229 download)

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Book Synopsis The Invisible State by : Alastair Davidson

Download or read book The Invisible State written by Alastair Davidson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the modern State, power rests on the consensus of the citizens. They accord its institutions the authority to regulate society. State theory suggests that this authority is a right to speak on certain matters in certain ways and to have the audience agree with those statements. It is a matter of an authorised language; all others fall into the category of ratbaggery. In this 1991 book, the first major book applying State theory to Australia, Alastair Davidson shows how Australian citizens were formed in the nineteenth century, and how their particular characteristics led to the empowering of a certain language of power: legalism. He further shows that this made the judiciary the most powerful arm of government - unlike countries where the people arm sovereign and the legislature supreme - because the judiciary has the last say on all issues and in its own language.

Flash Jim

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1460713257
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)

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Book Synopsis Flash Jim by : Kel Richards

Download or read book Flash Jim written by Kel Richards and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict. These words, and hundreds of others, once left colonial magistrates baffled and police confused. So comprehensible to us today, the flash language of criminals and convicts had marine officer Watkin Tench complaining about the need for an interpreter in the colonial court. Luckily, by 1811, that man was at hand. James Hardy Vaux - conman, pickpocket, absconder and thief, born into comfortable circumstances in England - was so drawn to a life of crime he was transported to Australia ... not once, but three times! Vaux's talents, glibness and audacity were extraordinary, and perceiving an opportunity to ingratiate himself with authorities during his second sentence, he set about writing a dictionary of the criminal slang of the colony, which was recognised for its uniqueness and taken back to England to be published. Kel Richards tells Vaux's story brilliantly, with the help of Vaux's own extraordinarily candid memoir of misdeeds - one of the first true-crime memoirs ever published. Kel's book combines two of his favourite subjects: the inventiveness, humour and origins of Australian English, and our history of fabulous, disreputable characters. With echoes of The Surgeon of Crowthorne as well as Oliver Twist, Flash Jim is a ripping read - especially for those who appreciate the power of words and the convict contribution to our idiom. PRAISE 'James Hardy Vaux was a con-man with a talent for words who wrote the first dictionary of Australian English. Kel Richards is a word-man with a talent for telling a stirring story about the con-man. In Flash Jim Kel Richards brings James Hardy Vaux to life as we haven't seen him before' - Emeritus Professor Roland Sussex, School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Queensland 'An engaging tale from a great student of our language about one of the conmen who gave Australia its character - and its distinctive slang' - Andrew Bolt, broadcaster and columnist 'One of the strongest bonds binding the people of Australia together is the Australian language. We speak a dialect of English richer and more colourful than most. When we call someone a "hoon" or invite a friend to a "barbie" we know immediately what we're talking about - but we have to translate for overseas visitors. This powerful cultural bond was, as Kel explains, built on four foundations. And the most colourful of those four was convict slang. The role that it played, and still plays, in the Australian language, and the story of the man who first recorded it is - as we used to say - a "ripping yarn". It makes a page-turning story' - Alan Jones, broadcaster and columnist 'There's never been a more important time to truly understand our Australian history and this book is a great introduction to the richness of our language and a wonderful window onto the real life of colonial Australia from my favourite wordsmith, Kel Richards' - Peta Credlin, broadcaster and columnist

The Bulletin

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Australian Autobiographical Narratives

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Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 9780642107947
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (79 download)

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Book Synopsis Australian Autobiographical Narratives by : Kay Walsh

Download or read book Australian Autobiographical Narratives written by Kay Walsh and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Autobiographical Narratives Volume 2 and its partner Volume 1 provide researchers with detailed annotations of published Australian autobiographical writing. Both volumes are a rich resource of the European settlement of Australia. Theis selection concentrates on the post-gold rush period, providing portraits of 533 individuals, from amateur explorers to politicians, from pioneer settlers to sportsmen. Like Volume 1, it offers an intimate and absorbing insight into nineteenth-century Australia.

Locating Australian Literary Memory

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Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1785271083
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Book Synopsis Locating Australian Literary Memory by : Brigid Magner

Download or read book Locating Australian Literary Memory written by Brigid Magner and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Locating Australian Literary Memory’ explores the cultural meanings suffusing local literary commemorations. It is orientated around eleven authors – Adam Lindsay Gordon, Joseph Furphy, Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Lawson, A. B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson, Nan Chauncy, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Eleanor Dark, P. L. Travers, Kylie Tennant and David Unaipon – who have all been celebrated through a range of forms including statues, huts, trees, writers’ houses and assorted objects. Brigid Magner illuminates the social memory residing in these monuments and artefacts, which were largely created as bulwarks against forgetting. Acknowledging the value of literary memorials and the voluntary labour that enables them, she traverses the many contradictions, ironies and eccentricities of authorial commemoration in Australia, arguing for an expanded repertoire of practices to recognise those who have been hitherto excluded.

Children's Literature Abstracts

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children's Literature Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Australian Children's Books: 1973-1988

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Publisher : Melbourne University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
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Book Synopsis Australian Children's Books: 1973-1988 by : Marcie Muir

Download or read book Australian Children's Books: 1973-1988 written by Marcie Muir and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 1992 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume two of a reference work listing all children's books by Australians. Thsi volume covers the period from 1973 to 1988. Entries provide physical descriptions, dates, publishers, illustrations, awards received and, in some cases, remarks on the content. Entries are arrnaged by author. Title and illustrator indexes are included