On the Wallaby, The Diary of a Queensland Swagman
On the Wallaby, The Diary of a Queensland Swagman

Author: Edward S Sorenson

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-15

Total Pages: 112

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'On the Wallaby, The Diary of a Queensland Swagman' is an adventure novel written in first-person perspective by Edward Sorenson. This is a plain bush yarn, relating in a humorous vein the experiences and adventures of a young man, who, finding himself stranded in Brisbane, where he knew no one, shouldered his swag and struck out into the bush to look for a job. His track from Breakfast Creek to beyond the Maranoa River, may be traced on the map, for he deals only with real places—and real people—and what he goes through is what the majority of swag men go through. Always an optimist, he sees the humor of the situations, and his narrative is embellished with details of bushcraft, and with the yarns and the fun of campfire and track.

Quinton's Rouseabout and Other Stories
Quinton's Rouseabout and Other Stories

Author: Edward S Sorenson

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 175

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"Quinton's Rouseabout and Other Stories" from 1908 is a short story collection from the prominent Australian writer Edward Sorenson. His topics are Australian wildlife, life in the bush, and gold mines, where Sorenson spent a considerable part of his young years. The book contains many of his famous stories as "The Man in the Mountain," "Bandy Hollow," "Under the Gum Tree," and others.

Spotty the Bower-Bird and Other Stories
Spotty the Bower-Bird and Other Stories

Author: Edward S Sorenson

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 149

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This is a collection of stories inspired by Edward Sorenson's experience in the bush. The book follows the lives and habits of nine of Australia's incredible native animals. The book contains:Spotty, the BowerBird - Quiyan, the Possum - Jack, the Kookaburra - Warrigal, the Dingo - Bluey, the Wren - Kojurrie, the Goanna - Karaway, the Cockatoo - Booraby, the Koala - Brolga and Jabiru.

Annals of Australian Literature
Annals of Australian Literature

Author: Joy W. Hooton

Publisher: Melbourne, Australia : Oxford University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 384

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This is both an index and a survey of Australian writing from 1789 to 1988, supplementing and expanding Grahame Johnston's original compilation published in 1970. The editors have interpreted literature in a broad sense, including such genres as history, biography, bibliography, correspondence, autobiography, and travel writing as well as poetry, fiction, and drama. Although the listings are necessarily selective, many new titles for the period covered by Johnston's edition have been added.

The Amateur Tramp
The Amateur Tramp

Author: Colin Choat

Publisher:

Published: 2018-06

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780646989372

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Aidan De Brune was the first person to walk around the perimeter of Australia. He set off in 1921, unaccompanied and unassisted and walked 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometres) from Sydney to Sydney, anticlockwise. Everywhere he walked, he asked people to sign his travel diary, as evidence of his presence in the places he visited. He was also a journalist and he regularly wrote articles during his walk, which appeared in the Sydney Daily Mail and other newspapers.He was a prolific writer of serialised mystery stories, which were syndicated in newspapers throughout Australia and New Zealand. He was also an accomplished musician who gave music lessons and at one time played piano accompaniments to silent films in London.

How to Cook a Galah
How to Cook a Galah

Author: Laurel Evelyn Dyson

Publisher: Lothian Children's Books

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 260

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Collection of Australian stories and recipes contained within a history of Australian cooking and eating habits, from colonial times to the present. Includes photos, source list, further reading and index. Author is Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney.

Australian Words and Their Origins
Australian Words and Their Origins

Author: Joan Hughes

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 688

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This is a concise edition of the Australian National Dictionary (OUP 1989) which was hailed as a major asset for readers studying Australian literature that made all earlier dictionaries of Australian English obsolete. The volume contains nearly as many headwords as the original edition, yet provides fewer collations, and indicates the first recorded, and most recent, use of a word. It retains the parent volume's comprehensive coverage of uniquely Australian words and phrases; words for indigenous flora, fauna, and pastimes; and Aboriginal terms.

I Recall: Collections and Recollections
I Recall: Collections and Recollections

Author: Robert Henderson Croll

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 185

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I Recall: Collections and Recollections is a memoir by Robert Henderson Croll. Croll was an Australian author, lyricist, bushwalker, and civic servant. Excerpt: "Central Australia, where I have now been five times, was long a place of desire. When my Sister Elizabeth and her husband, Albert Watts, went to live at Quorn, a township sitting at the foot of the Flinders Range in South Australia, I paid her two visits. They quickened my wish to see more of the remarkable country on the edge of which Quorn is placed. That was some forty years ago. The first, a Spring journey, left two vivid memories. One is of the seemingly endless fields of young wheat which made much of South Australia so beautiful just then; the other is of a shooting trip to which we were invited. Our hosts were two young men of the district, tall and powerful, sons of a German settler. The conveyance was a light open cart with one fixed seat which held the two brothers. Behind them, a board rested its ends on the sides of the cart and was secured to the front seat by a stout rope."