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From one of our master storytellers, author of the bestselling Great Australian Stories, comes another collection of yarns, tall tales, bush legends and colourful characters. Taking us from the deep outback to the glistening sea, they go to the heart of what makes us distinctively Australian.
Contents
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..The Convict's Tour to Hell..'Make it hours instead of days'..Captain of the 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 WC..Fearful..4 A FAIR GO..Black Mary..The Tambaroora line..Mates..A glorious spree..The Greenhide Push waltzes Matilda..The Bunuba resistance..The bagman's 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 of the West'..Cures!..A seasonal guide to weather and wives..Backyard brainwaves WC..WC Sugar bag nation..Happy Valleys..Sergeant Small..The 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 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..Sources..Bibliography..Picture credits
