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Our fathers cleared the bush : remembering Eyre Peninsula / Jill Roe.
- Title
- Our fathers cleared the bush : remembering Eyre Peninsula / Jill Roe.
- Author
- Roe, Jill
- Publication
- Mile End, South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2016.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | DU330.E9 R64 2016 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 249 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Milking the cows, games in the one-teacher school yard, watching the weekly ship appear on the horizon, church once a month, and trips into town for the mail in the buckboard: renowned historian Jill Roe, whose grandparents were early settlers of South Australia's west coast, revisits her mid-century childhood in what was one of Australia's most remote regions. Rhythms of work and play were punctuated by moments - the annual show, a visit from young Queen Elizabeth - that connected farming lives, however briefly, to a changing world. With urbanisation comes uncertainties. As her story unfolds, Jill Roe contemplates the future of Eyre Peninsula and the role of regional Australia in this young century. 'Our fathers cleared the bush' is a charming, thoughtful blend of history, memoir and ideas." -- book cover.
- Subject
- Roe, Jill
- Country life > Eyre Peninsula (S.A.) > Anecdotes
- Country life
- Manners and customs
- Eyre Peninsula (S.A.) > Social life and customs > Anecdotes
- Eyre Peninsula (S.A.) > History
- Eyre, Péninsule d' (Austr.-Mér.) > Mœurs et coutumes > Anecdotes
- Eyre, Péninsule d' (Austr.-Mér.) > Histoire
- South Australia > Eyre Peninsula
- Australian
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies
- Anecdotes
- History
- Autobiographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Prologue -- 1. Getting there -- 2. Country life -- 3. Water as a vital resource -- 4. The school bus -- 5. "Farming is fun" : a child's perspective -- 6. "We plough the fields and scatter" : church and community -- 7. "I danced for the queen" : exuberance and otherwise in regional history since the 1950s -- 8. The show -- 9. Survival : the Aboriginal experience -- 10. Since the 1960s.
- ISBN
- 9781743054291
- 1743054297
- LCCN
- 2018377592
- OCLC
- 951743056
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library