Full title: Larrikins, bush tales and other great Australian stories / Graham Seal.

Author/creator: Seal, Graham, 1950-.

Date: 2016..

Call Numbers: H 2015/4552, G 2016/1512

Record Identifier: 74VKzpX6A2ZM

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xv, 299 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm., , , , , , The great Australian storyscape -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Wide brown land -- Eaglehawk and crow -- Great floods -- Firestick farming -- 'The landscape looked like a park' -- Captain Cook's law -- The corners -- 2. Upon the fatal shore -- Leaden hearts -- The ring -- The melancholy death of Captain Logan -- A convict's tour to hell -- 'Make it hours instead of days' -- Captain of the push -- The prince of pickpockets -- 3. Plains of promise -- 'I was not expected to survive' -- The town that drowned -- Wine and witches -- Phantoms of the landfall light -- Tragedy on Lizard Island -- Who was Billy Barlow? -- The temple of skulls -- Chimney sweeps' day -- The dragon of Big Gold Mountain -- 4. A fair go -- Black Mary -- The Tambaroora line -- Mates -- A glorious spree -- The Greenhide Push waltzes Matilda -- The Bunuba resistance -- The bagman's gazette -- Homes of hope -- 5. How we travel the land -- Rangers and rouseabouts -- The swagman's union -- The oozlum bird -- The tea and sugar train -- The black stump -- The rise and fall of Cobb & Co -- The long paddock --The real red dog -- 6. Doing it tough -- Depending on the harvest -- 'Women of the West' -- Cures! -- A seasonal guide to weather and wives --Backyard brainwaves -- Sugar bag nation -- Happy Valley -- Sergeant Small -- The farmer's will -- 7. Home of the weird -- Curious discoveries -- The marble man -- Was Breaker Morant the Gatton murderer? -- Vanishing vessels -- Yearning for yowies -- 8. Romancing the swag -- Lore of the track -- Sniffling Jimmy --The poetic swaggie -- 'There you have the Australian swag' -- A swagman's death -- Where the angel tarboys fly -- Bowyang Bill and the cocky farmer -- The mad eight -- 9. After the Kellys -- The saga -- A Glenrowan letter -- 'I thought it was a circus' -- A death in Forbes -- Living legends -- The stranger -- 10. The child in the bush -- The beanstalk in the bush -- Forgotten nursery rhymes -- The lost boys of Daylesford -- Fairies in the paddock -- Surviving Black Jack -- 11. Larger than life -- The fate of Captain Cadell -- The Fenian -- The last bushranger -- Lawson's people -- The Coo-ee lady -- Australia's first Hollywood star -- A vision splendid -- The illywacker -- 12. Working for a laugh -- Droving in a bar -- A fine team of bullocks -- A stump speech -- Working on the railway -- Service! -- High-octane travel -- Railway birds -- Rechtub klat -- The Garbos' Christmas -- A Christmas message -- Total eclipse of communication -- The laws of working life -- Somebody else's job -- The basic work survival guide -- Twelve things you'll never hear an employee tell the boss -- Excessive absence -- Running naked with the bulls -- Doing business -- The end of a perfect day.

Publishers: Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2016., Crows Nest, NSW, Australia : Allen & Unwin, 2016.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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DDC: 398.0994

MMS ID: 991023347829702626