Jackaroo Jack
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Jackaroo Jack
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Author : S. M. Gorton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Jackaroo Jack written by S. M. Gorton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Occupations categories.
Kututu
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Author : Olivia Osborn
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2014-06-04
Kututu written by Olivia Osborn and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-04 with Fiction categories.
Life on a cattle station in Australia's unforgiving Northern Territory is rough. The extreme heat, humidity, insects, dust, isolation, and predators forge impenetrable bonds among those who can survive here. The people are just as hardened--and just as unforgiving--as the wild lands they fight to tame. In 1987, Clare Daine, a schoolteacher from Melbourne, takes up the job of governess to identical triplets at the Opium Creek station. She's shocked to discover that the "homestead" is little more than an old tin shed with limited electricity. Her employer, Jack Marlow, a narcissistic alcoholic, is extremely demanding, and the other men of the station are as raw around the edges as the station itself. Three years before Clare's arrival, the triplets' mother, Lily, disappeared during a brutal wet-season storm. Now, doubt has left the close-knit community nervous, suspicious, and aggrieved. When Wanatjiti, Lily's renegade stallion, returns, old wounds are opened, and unanswered questions rise again. Ngunintja, the triplets' grandmother, has her own theories about what really happened during that fateful storm. And now nightmares tear Clare's sleep apart. Her dedication to the children is the only thing that keeps her from fleeing the horrors of this life. Slowly, she comes to understand the love-hate relationship they all share with each other and with the land itself. Clare's single-minded determination to discover the truth behind Lily's disappearance puts her own safety at risk. How far will she go to solve the mystery?
The Jackaroo
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Author : Owen Genty
language : en
Publisher: Owen Genty
Release Date : 2006-01-01
The Jackaroo written by Owen Genty and has been published by Owen Genty this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Cloncurry Region (Qld.) categories.
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.
The Purple Tree
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Author : Frank E. Burdett
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2014-03-17
The Purple Tree written by Frank E. Burdett and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-17 with Fiction categories.
Life has no particular ceremony for choosing people to be thrust into the open public arena, whether favourable or not. Many times this happens with or without any actual input by that unsuspecting human being. Frank E. Burdett is one such person. He volunteered and joined the New Zealand Army to fi ght the Terrorists in the jungles of Malaysia. In one single night, his life changed forever when a man-eating tiger chose him as its next victim. Frank was attacked, mauled and dragged backwards along the rough and uneven jungle fl oor. This experience is related in his book, “Sons of the Brave”. Frank was diagnosed with terminal metastasized melanoma cancer. In July 2010 he was given 6 months to live after surgery and radiation treatment for cancer of both lungs, liver and bowel; but he then decided to undertake an alternative medical treatment and has been, to date, four years free of any cancer. He was encouraged to write his story by a leading oncologist in Brisbane in order to help other cancer victims. That book is entitled “I Survived Metastacised Melanoma Cancer!” “The Purple Tree” was written during his recovery period and allowed him to freely research his material, through friends, neighbours and well-meaning Australians. It has taken a long time to bring to light this interesting story about life in the Outback.
New International Dictionary
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1920
New International Dictionary written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1920 with English language categories.
Origins
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Author : Eric Partridge
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-05-23
Origins written by Eric Partridge and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-23 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This etymological dictionary gives the origins of some 20,000 items from the modern English vocabulary, discussing them in groups that make clear the connections between words derived by a variety of routes from originally common stock. As well as giving the answers to questions about the derivation of individual words, it is a fascinating book to browse through, and includes extensive lists of prefixes, suffixes, and elements used in the creation of new vocabulary.
The Second String
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Author : Nat Gould
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-15
The Second String written by Nat Gould and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-15 with Fiction categories.
The Second String by Nat Gould is about a young hero and rebellious good-for-nothing Jack Redland, a frequent visitor of The Downs and a secret admirer of sweet and beautiful Winifred. Excerpt: "There goes the failure of the family, yet I like him, there's real grit in him if it was brought out." The speaker was Sir Lester Dyke, and the remark was made to his daughter, Winifred. "The failure" did not seem unhappy, he walked across the field with a free and easy stride, whistling softly to himself, enjoying the beauties of nature, taking in everything at a glance, drinking deep of the many good things that mother earth provided for the entertainment of mankind."
Folk Songs Of The Southern United States
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Author : Josiah H. Combs
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-08-01
Folk Songs Of The Southern United States written by Josiah H. Combs and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-01 with Music categories.
“The spirit of balladry is not dead, but slowly dying. The instincts, sentiments, and feelings which it represents are indeed as immortal as romance itself, but their mode of expression, the folksong, is fighting with its back to the wall, with the odds against it in our introspective age.” This statement by Josiah Henry Combs is that of a man who grew up among the members of a singing family in one of the last strongholds of the ballad-making tradition, the Southern Highlands of the United States. Combs was born in 1886 in Hazard, Kentucky, the heart of the mountain feud area—a significant background for one who was to take a prominent part in the “ballad war” of the 1900s. Combs’s intimate knowledge of folk culture and his grasp of the scholarly literature enabled him to approach the ballad controversy with common sense as well as with some of the heat generated by the dispute. Although in the early twentieth century there was probably no more controversy about the nature of the folk and folksong than there is today, it was a different kind of controversy. Many theories of the origins of folksong current at that time, such as the alleged relationship of traditional ballads to “primitive poetry,” did not take into account contemporary evidence. Combs said, “Here as elsewhere, I go directly to the folk for much of my information, allowing the songs, language, names, customs . . . of the people to help settle the problem of ancestry. . . . In brief, a conscientious study of the lore of the folk cannot be separated from the folk itself.” Folk-Songs du Midi des États-Unis, published as a doctoral dissertation at the University of Paris in 1925, was an introduction to the study of the folksong of the Southern Appalachians, together with a selection of folksong texts collected by Combs. Folk-Songs of the Southern United States, the first publication of that work in English, is based on the French text and Combs’s English draft. To this edition is appended an annotated listing of all songs in the Josiah H. Combs Collection in the Western Kentucky Folklore Archive at the University of California, Los Angeles. The appendix also includes the texts of selected songs. The aim of this edition is to make the contents of the original volume more readily available in English and to provide an index to the Combs Collection that may be drawn upon by students of folksong. The book also offers texts of over fifty songs of British and American origin as sung in the Southern Highlands.
A Dictionary Of Slang Jargon Cant
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Author : Albert Barrère
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
A Dictionary Of Slang Jargon Cant written by Albert Barrère and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Cant categories.
The Chambers Dictionary
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Author : Allied Chambers
language : en
Publisher: Allied Publishers
Release Date : 2002
The Chambers Dictionary written by Allied Chambers and has been published by Allied Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.