It's a Jackaroo's Life
Author : Michael Thornton
Publisher :
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 27,14 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Jackeroos
ISBN : 9780959662405
Author : Michael Thornton
Publisher :
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 27,14 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Jackeroos
ISBN : 9780959662405
Author : John Gilfoyle
Publisher : Boolarong Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 20,29 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1921555114
This book will take you on a hair-raising journey from the 1929 to 2005, from horse and carts to helicopters, and across the country from the Conondale Ranges around Kilcoy to Cloncurry and the Kimberley, form Moree to Mt Isa, and from the Murray River through the Channel Country and up to the Barkly Tableland. Along the way you'll find rough horses, plenty of spills, battered vehicles, rum drinkers.
Author : Ernest Charles Buley
Publisher :
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 37,92 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Australia
ISBN :
Author : Edward Ellis Morris
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Australian languages
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Australia
ISBN :
Author : Edward Ellis Morris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1108028799
The first scholarly dictionary of Australian and New Zealand English, including loan words from indigenous languages, originally published in 1898.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Sydney (N.S.W.)
ISBN :
Author : Cynthia Voigt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0689311230
When hard times among the People revive the old stories of the hero Jackaroo, an innkeeper's daughter follows her own quest to unlock the secret reality behind the legend.
Author : Owen Genty
Publisher : Owen Genty
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 12,97 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Cloncurry Region (Qld.)
ISBN : 9780473114299
Jackaroo; n. a male station hand. That is according to the "Australian Slang Dictionary' whereas the Macquarie Dictionary gives a more realistic version. " A jack of all trades". Certainly a jackaroo is far more than 'a male station hand', which will be evident as the reader moves through this recount of the writer's five years of 'Station Management Apprenticeship"', possibly a more precise definition of the word. ('Station" being a large sheep and/or cattle property/ranch). The origin of the word 'jackaroo' has been debated as long as the word has been in existence, but the most popular belief is that early English migrants, who worked on stations in the Australian Outback, were given the name of "Jack Raw", being raw to the ways of the Australian bush. One such English migrant, whose name was Jack Carew may have had an influence on the foundation of the word. There is also the more recent female counterpart, known as a jillaroo. It is however, generally agreed that the word has no connection with the famed Australian icon, the kangaroo.
Author : Bob Carr
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2008-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1742282172
Welcome to my library. Dog-eared paperbacks falling to pieces. Second-hand books from the stores and barrows of four continents. Modern first editions, some inscribed ... In My Reading Life, a personal investigation into the nature of democracy, dictatorship, decency and the hardwired human condition, Bob Carr shares his profound love of books and reading - books you've never heard of, books you've always wanted to read, books you will rediscover afresh. Here are the essential clues to devouring Tolstoy, Proust, Flaubert, Solzhenitsyn and the Epic of Gilgamesh. From the social comedies of Anthony Powell and Patrick White and the tragedies of Sophocles and Shakespeare, to the twentieth century's darkest moment - Auschwitz - powerfully recounted by Primo Levi in If This Is a Man, Carr invites us to discover the most important testaments to the highs and lows of human nature. He discovers, through his great love of the written word, that decency can survive the greatest tests, giving us all cause for hope.