| Description |
xii, 307 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Rounding up the stockmen -- Personnel, components and the changing culture of mounted stockwork, 1840-80 -- Visual images of the stockman and the stock-muster, 1840-80 -- Cults and culture of equestrian sport -- Emigration, horse and horseman -- Establishing the archetypes: bushranging, travelling and buckjumping -- The literary culture of nostalgia, 1880-1900 -- The visual culture of nostalgia, 1890-1900 -- Rough riding abroad: trial and transformation of the bushman |
| Summary |
The horse and its rider are a potent symbol galloping across the cultural landscape of Australia. Nanette Mantle explores the myth of the stockman, the boundary rider and other heroic horseback figures in 19th-century Australian literature and art |
| Analysis |
Local history (Australia) |
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Riding & horsemanship |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 278-294 |
| Subject |
Horsemen and horsewomen -- Australia -- History.
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Horses -- Australia.
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Horses -- Folklore.
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Horses -- Australia -- History.
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Horsemen and horsewomen -- Australia.
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| ISBN |
0522850898 : |
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