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Australia
- Title
- Australia / edited by Robert Ross.
- Publication
- San Francisco : Whereabouts Press : Distributed to the trade by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, [1998], ©1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR9617.32 .A9 1998 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Ross, Robert L.
- Description
- xiii, 239 pages : map; 19 cm.
- Summary
- Journey down under in the company of Australia's finest writers. From stories of survival in the bush to vacationing at the beach, from immigrants adjusting to the new land to aboriginal displacement to the city, these twenty-five enthralling stories allow the reader to cover this large continent in a most imaginative way.
- Series Statement
- A traveler's literary companion
- Uniform Title
- Traveler's literary companion.
- Subjects
- Contents
- The Rainbow Serpent / Oodgeroo and Kabul Oodgeroo Noonuccal -- Man-and-Kangaroo Rock / Aboriginal Myth -- His Country - After All / Henry Lawson -- The First Gathering / Eleanor Dark -- Dingo's Picnic / B. Wongar -- At the Source of Life / Arthur Upfield -- The Chosen Vessel / Barbara Baynton -- We Embark in the Bear Industry / Steele Rudd -- Misanthropy / Xavier Herbert -- The O'Dowds at Home / Patrick White -- Pear Tree Dance / Elizabeth Jolley -- You Gave Me Hyacinths / Janette Turner Hospital -- Thomas Awkner Floats / Tim Winton -- Diesel Epiphany / Thea Astley -- The Old Track / Katharine Susannah Prichard -- Postcards from Surfers / Helen Garner -- Stingray / Robert Drewe -- Ash / Mandy Sayer -- The White House / Michael Wilding -- Return to Hobart Town / C. J. Koch -- Mother / Judah Waten -- A Medium / David Malouf -- Pension Day / Archie Weller -- Life of the Party / Murray Bail -- American Dreams / Peter Carey.
- ISBN
- 1883513057 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97047562
- OCLC
- ocm38090893
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries