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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476991603321

Autore

Gammage Bill

Titolo

The boy from Boort : remembering Hank Nelson / / Bill Gammage, Brij V. Lal, Gavan Daws

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Acton, A.C.T. : , : ANU Press, , 2014

ISBN

1925021653

1925021645

9781925021646

9781925021653

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 343 pages)

Disciplina

378.12

Soggetti

College teachers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Farm Boys -- The Boy from Boort -- Talk and Chalk -- Boort and Beyond -- I Don’t Think I Deserve a Pension – We Didn’t Do Much Fighting’: Interviewing Australian Prisoners of War of the Japanese, 1942–1945 -- Doktorvater -- Hank, My Mentor -- Papua New Guinea Wantok -- Coach Nelson -- Hank of Coombs -- Hank, My Dad -- Pedalling History -- A Picture: From the Past and without a Past -- A Village School -- Pictures at Tabara -- Minimay: One of 6,000 Weatherboard Schools -- From Wagga to Waddington: Australians in Bomber Command -- Observing the Present: Writing the Past -- The Joke in History -- Have You Got a Title? Seminar Daze -- Em Inap Nau -- Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

Hank Nelson was an academic, film-maker, teacher, graduate supervisor and university administrator.