[Gutenberg 24997] • The Beginning Of The Sea Story Of Australia / 1901
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- Authors
- Becke, Louis
- Publisher
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Tags
- essays , australia -- history
- ISBN
- 9781502511577
- Date
- 2009-10-04T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.04 MB
- Lang
- en
To many people in England the mention of Australia conjures pictures of tented gold-fields and tall, black-bearded, red-shirted bushrangers; of mounted police recruited from "flaxen-haired younger sons of good old English families, well-groomed and typically Anglo-Saxon"; of squatters and sheep runs; of buckjumpers ridden by the most daring riders in the world; and of much more to the same purpose; but never is presented a picture of the sea or sailor folk.