Larrikins, Bush Tales & Other Great Australian Stories, by Graham Seal. TPB

Larrikins, Bush Tales & Other Great Australian Stories
by Graham Seal
In Stock in Australia

Yarns, legends, myths, jokes and anecdotes are our national lifeblood. These home-grown and borrowed tales, told and re-told over generations, offer an insight into the larger national story of which every Australian has a part.
Was Breaker Morant the Gatton murderer? What happened to Sniffling Jimmy and Black Mary? We revisit some of the most colourful characters in Australia's past, and the stories that have grown around them. We go looking for the real illywhacker and find out what happened after the execution of our most famous outlaw, Ned Kelly.
It takes a certain character to make a living in the Australian bush. In the most difficult situations, laughter often comes to the rescue. Here are pioneers and battlers, convicts and settler's children, and a land that tests them with fire, flood and drought, all in stories resonant with Australia's distinctive wry humour.

Allen & Unwin 2016 ISBN 9781760290436 299pp
Paperback, very good condition, slight cover and spine creasing, writing on first page.

20 x 13 x 2.6. 282g

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