| Description |
xxx, 423 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Bushrangers -- The goldfields -- Blacks -- Perishes, etc. -- Shanties -- Droving -- Horses and horsemen -- The teams -- Shearing -- Swaggies -- Tall stories and take-downs -- People and places -- The irish -- Bush yarns -- Old days, old ways -- The light horse |
| Summary |
Mad Jack's Cockatoo - There's a man that went out in the flood time and drought,/ By the banks of the outer Barcoo,/ And they called him mad Jack cause the pack on his back/ Was the perch for an old cockatoo |
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Northward to the Sheds - The beginning of the shearing season in Queensland. The river is part f the Queensland&ndashNew South Wales border. 'There's a whisper from the regions out beyond the Barwon banks;/ There's a gathering of the legions and a forming of the ranks;/ There's a murmur coming nearer with the signs that never fail,/ And it's time for every shearer to be out upon the trail.' - Information from Writer's Footprints by JSD Mellick |
| Analysis |
Australian poetry - 19th century |
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Folk songs, English - Australian |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 411-412 |
| Subject |
Australian poetry.
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Folk songs, Aboriginal Australian.
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Ballads, English -- Australia.
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Folk poetry, Australian.
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Folk songs -- Australia.
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Folk songs, English -- Australia.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Poetry.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114317
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| Author |
Keesing, Nancy.
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Stewart, Douglas, 1913-1985.
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| ISBN |
0207946531 |
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