The best Australian bush stories / / Jim Haynes

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910818814303321
• Autore: Haynes Jim (Australian author and entertainer)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Sydney : , : Allen & Unwin, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-74343-511-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (417 p.)
• Disciplina: 828
• Soggetti: Frontier and pioneer life - Australia; Country life - Australia; Australia Social life and customs Literary collections
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover ; About the author; Title page; Dedication and Imprint ; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1 DELIGHTS OF THE BUSH ; 'Mallee Morning' by Wilbur Howcroft ; The Killer Koala by Kenneth Cook ; The Delights of the Bush by 'AH Chee' ; The Tallagandra Turkey by Frank Daniel ; The Hotel in Maryborough by Mark Twain ; Down Among the Wombats by Lennie Lower ; The Drunken Kangaroo by Kenneth Cook ; 'The Drover's Lament' by Anon ; Part 2 BUSH JUSTICE ; 'The Six-Stitcher' by Frank Daniel ; Bush Justice by Banjo Paterson ; The Ironbark Chip by Henry Lawson; Here Comes the Bride by Frank Dalby Davison His Bad Luck by Edward Dyson ; Shooting Stars by C.W. Peck ; Marks's Cutter by E.O. Schlunke ; 'A Walgett Episode' by Banjo Paterson ; Part 3 DAVE IN LOVE ; 'To Many Ladies' by 'Dr Nil' (Charles Souter) ; The Wrong Turning by Henry Handel Richardson ; Spicer's Courtship by Edward Dyson ; Dave in Love by Steele Rudd ; Poor Joe by Marcus Clarke ; Strawberry: A Love Story ; A Box of Dead Roses by Ethel Mills ; Drifted Back by Henry Lawson ; 'The Free-Selector's Daughter' by Henry Lawson ; Part 4 THERE'S A PATRON SAINT OF DRUNKS; 'Drunks' by 'Syd Swagman' Snakes and Alcohol by Kenneth Cook ; There's a Patron Saint of Drunks by Jim Haynes ; The Evenin' Before Leavin' Home by Steele Rudd ; The Six O'Clock Swells by Frank Daniel ; Where the Cooler Bars Grow by Lennie Lower ; One Hundred Stubbies by Kenneth Cook ; 'The Alcoholics' Creed' by Anon ; Part 5 TO THE ; CITY ; 'Simple Sister Goes to Sydney' by 'Billy T' (Edward Dyson) ; The Waybacks go to Sydney by Henry Fletcher ; A Zack to Central by Frank Daniel ; The Downfall of Mulligan's by Banjo Paterson ; To the City by Steele Rudd ; Miner's Holiday by Gavin Casey; 'Westward Ho!' by Harry 'Breaker' Morant Part 6 BENEFIT OF CLERGY ; 'God and Poets' by Jack Sorensen ; I Used to Read the Comics First by Jim Haynes ; The Reign of Eugene Ham by 'Brian James' (John Tierney) ; Benefit of Clergy by Alexander Allen ; A Sabbath Morn at Waddy by Edward Dyson ; Bill's Religion by William Baylebridge ; Everyone Liked Father Connolly by Jim Haynes ; First Confession by Frank Daniel ; The Parson's Blackboy by Ernest Favenc ; 'The Parson and the Prelate' by 'Creeve Roe' (Victor Daley) ; Part 7 THE CONQUERING BUSH ; 'Spinifex' by Jack Sorensen; The First Bush Fire by C.W. Peck The Drover's Wife by Henry Lawson ; Mallee by Royal Bridges ; An Error in Administration by Adam McCay ; The Feud by D'Arcy Niland ; The Conquering Bush by Edward Dyson ; Rats by Henry Lawson ; 'The Wind That Buries the Dead' by 'J.W. Gordon' (Jim Grahame) ; Part 8 THE NIGHT WE WATCHED FOR WALLABIES ; 'Picking Lemons' by Graham Fredriksen ; The Night we Watched for Wallabies by Steele Rudd ; Crutching the Rams by Frank Daniel ; Conversation in a Pantry by Henry Handel Richardson ; Possum Gully by Miles Franklin; Old Heinrich and the Lambing Ewe by E.O. Schlunke
• Sommario/riassunto: Australia's national character and spirit have always been defined, rightly or wrongly, by 'the bush'. This entertaining, thought-provoking, humorous, nostalgic and, above all, highly readable collection of stories for the modern reader shows why the romance endures. From Jim Haynes, one of our most successful and prolific Australiana authors, comes a collection of classic and iconic stories from the remote outback, cattle station, wheat farm and rural town. The bush is where our iconic characters are found living in, taking refuge or exploring, whether an Aborigine, explorer, squatter, bushra