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Author : Sue Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922648259
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (482 download)
Download or read book The Song of the Billabong written by Sue Murray and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Taylor
Publisher : Hachette Australia
ISBN 13 : 0733626076
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (336 download)
Download or read book A Swag of Memories written by Brian Taylor and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quintessential Australian bushman, Brian Taylor has spent most of his life on the land. Working as a drover, a stockman, a fencer, a shearer and a saddler, he has gathered a swag of stories over the years as he travelled way out past the Barcoo, along the dusty plains and beside the dry creek beds under the endless southern sky. In A SWAG OF MEMORIES Brian Taylor shares with us these stories, of the people he has met, the places he has been and the moments, long-gone, that define the traditions of the Australian bush. Like those bush poets and storytellers of days past, Taylor brings to life the characters and the creatures of the bush: men like Dangerous Dan Smith, a hard, self-reliant man who had a gentler talent; Father Peter, a parish priest and occasional hero; Charlie Gibson, an Aboriginal stockman who knew the land better than anyone; and Banjo, the ever-alert dingo watchdog. These colourful and evocative bush tales delightfully capture a slight of Australian life that many of us will never get to see. Luckily, with this collection, you can sit back with a billy of tea and read all about it.
Author : Maura Finn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922626615
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (266 download)
Download or read book By the Billabong written by Maura Finn and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wisdom of wombats,A passel of possums,A cluster of spiders knitting socks . . .Who else might you meet on a trip to the billabong?Find out in this delightful romp through a much-loved Australian landscape.
Author : MR Brian K. Taylor
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781517577919
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Song of the Billabong written by MR Brian K. Taylor and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new publication of non-fiction short stories is the result of the enthusiastic response to the author's previous publications, "The Forky Stick", "The Brumby Mare" and "The Moonlight Stallion". The last two were bunched up and published as a collection in "A Swag of Memories", by Hatchette, Australia. The authors family pioneered in the 1850s to Victoria, Australia, at a place called The landing, near Foster. His father grew up there and subsequently moved to New Zealand. Strongly influenced by family heritage and a bush upbringing Brian came to North Queensland in the 1950s, where the big mobs used to run. Brian's life on the land in New Zealand and Queensland as a ringer, drover, fencer, shearer and saddler has prepared him well to be a story teller. Back along life's track the memories of characters, the moments long gone and the Australian bush itself, with all its moods taught him the meaning of joy and belonging, giving peace of mind and always the strength to carry on. One of his accomplishments was the amazing role he played in the establishment of the 5000 odd kilometre Bicentennial National Trail, from Cooktown to Melbourne as mentioned in the story "The Old Bullock Horns". Readers of this collection, whether from the city or the bush, young or old, will be moved to laughter or to tears, or just to ponder as they turn the pages of these evocative and heart-felt stories.
Author : Jackie French
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 0730493962
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)
Download or read book A Waltz for Matilda (The Matilda Saga, #1) written by Jackie French and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story behind Banjo Paterson's iconic Australian song. 'Once a jolly swagman camped by a Billabong Under the shade of a Coolibah tree And he sang as he watched and waited till his Billy boiled You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me...' In 1894, twelve-year-old Matilda flees the city slums to find her unknown father and his farm. But drought grips the land, and the shearers are on strike. Her father has turned swaggie and he's wanted by the troopers. In front of his terrified daughter, he makes a stand against them, defiant to the last. 'You'll never catch me alive, said he...' Set against a backdrop of bushfire, flood, war and jubilation, this is the story of one girl's journey towards independence. It is also the story of others who had no vote and very little but their dreams. Drawing on the well-known poem by A.B. Paterson and from events rooted in actual history, this is the untold story behind Australia's early years as an emerging nation. PRAISE 'Jackie French has a passion for history, and an enviable ability to weave the fascinating minutiae of everyday life into a good story.' -- Magpies Magazine
Author : Mary Grant Bruce
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN 13 : 1774643383
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (746 download)
Download or read book Billabong Riders written by Mary Grant Bruce and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2021-11-06T19:17:00Z with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this adventure, the Billabong folk ride in wild country, droving cattle overland from the North. This is a story of good horses and dogs, their owners; and of a boy who found among them a new chance in life...
Author : Doug Lennox
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1550024612
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Now You Know written by Doug Lennox and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are golf assistants called caddies? Why do the British drive on the left and North Americans on the right? Why is football played on a "gridiron," and a leg injury called a "Charlie horse"? The answers to these questions and the origins of hundreds of other expressions and customs are brought together in this fascinating collection of the history behind everyday words and routines. With all the conciseness of his original radio scripts, Doug Lennox "cuts to the quick" in telling you the things you always wanted to know.
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1960-01-25 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Author : Helen Bromhead
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027264007
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Landscape and Culture – Cross-linguistic Perspectives written by Helen Bromhead and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between landscape and culture seen through language is an exciting and increasingly explored area. This ground-breaking book contributes to the linguistic examination of both cross-cultural variation and unifying elements in geographical categorization. The study focuses on the contrastive lexical semantics of certain landscape words in a number of languages. The aim is to show how geographical vocabulary sheds light on the culturally and historically shaped ways people see and think about the land around them. Notably, the study presents landscape concepts as anchored in a human-centred perspective, based on our cognition, vision, and experience in places. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach allows an analysis of meaning which is both fine-grained and transparent. The book is aimed, first of all, at scholars and students of linguistics. Yet it will also be of interest to researchers in geography, environmental studies, anthropology, cultural studies, Australian Studies, and Australian Aboriginal Studies because of the book’s cultural take.
Author : James Vance Marshall
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9781847801241
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Stories from the Billabong written by James Vance Marshall and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Walkabout come ten of Australia's ancient aboriginal legends, authentically and elegantly retold. Here you can discover how Great Mother Snake created and peopled the world with plants and creatures, what makes Frogs croak, why Kangaroo has a pouch, and just what it is that makes Platypus so special. The illustrations are by the aboriginal artist and storyteller Francis Firebrace, whose distinctive, colourful work is known throughout Australia and beyond.
Author : Marcia Kay Vaughan
Publisher : Scholastic Press
ISBN 13 : 9781743622575
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Wombat Stew written by Marcia Kay Vaughan and published by Scholastic Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic Australian picture book, a dingo catches a wombat and wants to cook him in a stew. But all the other bush animals have a plan to save their friend. They trick the dingo into using mud, feathers, flies, bugs and gumnuts in his wombat stew, and the result is a stew the dingo will never forget!
Author : Reuben Brown
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040008089
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Gift of Song written by Reuben Brown and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gift of Song: Performing Exchange in Western Arnhem Land tells the story of the return of physical and digital cultural materials through song and dance. Drawing on extensive, first-person ethnographic fieldwork in western Arnhem Land, Australia, Brown examines how Bininj/Arrarrkpi (Aboriginal people of this region) enact change and innovate their performance practices through ceremonial exchange. As Indigenous communities worldwide confront new social and environmental challenges, this book addresses the questions: How do Indigenous communities come to terms with legacies of taking and collecting? How are cultural materials in digital formats received and ritualised? How do traditional forms of exchange continue to mediate relationships? Combining ethnomusicological analysis and linguistically and historically informed ethnography, this book reveals how multilingualism and musical diversity are maintained through kun-borrk/manyardi, a major genre of Indigenous Australian song and dance. It retheorises the core anthropological concept of ‘exchange’ and enriches understanding of repatriation as a process of re-embedding tangible objects through intangible practices of ceremony and language.
Author : Dennis O'Keeffe
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1742377068
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (423 download)
Download or read book Waltzing Matilda written by Dennis O'Keeffe and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2012 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expose of two cover-ups: one the death of a swagman by a billabong; the other, a torrid affair between Banjo Paterson and his fiancee's best friend, and how the two events come together in Australia's best-loved national song. Australians know Waltzing Matilda, written by their most popular poet Banjo Paterson, as their most loved song and unofficial national anthem. What Australians don't know is that their song is embroiled in a web of secrecy, violence and a triangular love affair. Written at a pivotal time in Australia's history, Waltzing Matilda is as important to Australian culture as events like the Eureka Stockade and the story of Ned Kelly. One hundred and fifteen years after the writing of Waltzing Matilda, Australians continue to be fascinated with the song and sing it proudly wherever they meet to celebrate. Given the facts outlined in this story, they will be further captivated and embrace the song for decades to come.
Author : Ron Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Australian Folk Song written by Ron Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Doug Lennox
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 145972478X
Total Pages : 3090 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Now You Know Absolutely Everything written by Doug Lennox and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 3090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bundle presents Doug Lennox’s popular trivia book series in its entirety. These books will provide years and years of fun, with countless questions to be asked and tons of knowledge to be learned. The books cover general trivia but also such topics as sports (baseball, hockey, football, golf, soccer, among others), Christmas and the Bible, disasters and harsh weather, royal figures, crime and criminology, important people in Canada’s history, and so much more! Along the way we find out the answers to such questions as: Why do the British drive on the left and North Americans on the right? What football team was named after a Burt Reynolds character? Who started the first forensics laboratory? Which member of the British royal family competed at the Olympics? Lennox’s exhaustive series is fun for all ages. Includes Now You Know Now You Know More Now You Know Almost Everything Now You Know, Volume 4 Now You Know Big Book of Answers Now You Know Christmas Now You Know Big Book of Answers 2 Now You Know Golf Now You Know Hockey Now You Know Soccer Now You Know Football Now You Know Big Book of Sports Now You Know Baseball Now You Know Crime Scenes Now You Know Extreme Weather Now You Know Disasters Now You Know Pirates Now You Know Royalty Now You Know Canada’s Heroes Now You Know The Bible
Author : Mary Grant Bruce
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Billabong's Luck written by Mary Grant Bruce and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Billabong's Luck" by Mary Grant Bruce. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Carolyn Coil
Publisher : Pieces of Learning
ISBN 13 : 1880505169
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Eye on Australia written by Carolyn Coil and published by Pieces of Learning. This book was released on 1995-04 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary activities program to supplement the study of Australia.
