[Gutenberg 24997] • The Beginning Of The Sea Story Of Australia / 1901

[Gutenberg 24997] • The Beginning Of The Sea Story Of Australia / 1901
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
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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.