The Drovers Wife

Author : Leah Purcell
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1760144266
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Drover's Wife written by Leah Purcell and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in the heart of Australia’s high country, along an ancient, hidden track, lives Molly Johnson and her four surviving children, another on the way. Husband Joe is away months at a time droving livestock up north, leaving his family in the bush to fend for itself. Molly’s children are her world, and life is hard and precarious with only their dog, Alligator, and a shotgun for protection – but it can be harder when Joe’s around. At just twelve years of age Molly’s eldest son Danny is the true man of the house, determined to see his mother and siblings safe – from raging floodwaters, hunger and intruders, man and reptile. Danny is mature beyond his years, but there are some things no child should see. He knows more than most just what it takes to be a drover’s wife. One night under the moon’s watch, Molly has a visitor of a different kind – a black ‘story keeper’, Yadaka. He’s on the run from authorities in the nearby town, and exchanges kindness for shelter. Both know that justice in this nation caught between two worlds can be as brutal as its landscape. But in their short time together, Yadaka shows Molly a secret truth, and the strength to imagine a different path. Full of fury and power, Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson is a brave reimagining of the Henry Lawson short story that has become an Australian classic. Brilliantly plotted, it is a compelling thriller of our pioneering past that confronts head-on issues of today: race, gender, violence and inheritance.

Author : Ryan O'Neill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925589290
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Drover's Wives written by Ryan O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2018-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Lawson's short story 'The Drover's Wife' is an Australian classic that has sparked interpretations on the page, on canvas and on the stage. But it has never been so thoroughly, or hilariously, reimagined as by Ryan O'Neill, remixing and revising Lawson's masterpiece in ninety-nine different ways. You'll be amused, delighted and surprised by a Year 8 essay, a sporting commentary, a pop song, a cento, a dance and many more. Inventive and unexpected, this is laugh-out-loud literature from one of Australia's finest satirists.

Author : Murray Bail
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1875847650
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Drover's Wife & Other Stories written by Murray Bail and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the updated edition of Murray Bail's remarkable collection of short stories, first published in 1975. In addition to established classics such as 'The Drover's Wife' and 'Huebler', this edition includes a number of new stories. A man named Huebler decides to photograph everyone alive. A suburban father perches in his son's tree-house to spy on his friends. A dentist recognises his estranged wife in a famous painting. From the first publication of The Drover's Wife, it was evident that Murray Bail had transformed the art of the short story. In these works he creates extraordinary stories, and fascinating worlds.

Author : Henry Lawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book While the Billy Boils written by Henry Lawson and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Lawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Moglie Del Drover written by Henry Lawson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patsy Kemp
Publisher : Brolga Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0648697010
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Drover's Daughter written by Patsy Kemp and published by Brolga Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drovers hold an iconic place in our Australian identity, due to the courage and perseverance needed to transport cattle and sheep hundreds of kilometres through rural and outback areas. But what of the women and children who travelled with them?

Author : Frank Moorhouse
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 0143784838
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Drover's Wife written by Frank Moorhouse and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Henry Lawson wrote his story 'The Drover's Wife' in 1892, Australian writers, painters, performers and photographers have created a wonderful tradition of drover's wife works, stories and images. The Russell Drysdale painting from 1945 extended the mythology and it, too, has become an Australian icon. Other versions of the Lawson story have been written by Murray Bail, Barbara Jefferis, Mandy Sayer, David Ireland, Madeleine Watts and others, up to the present, including Leah Purcell's play and Ryan O'Neill's graphic novel. In essays and commentary, Frank Moorhouse examines our ongoing fascination with this story and has collected some of the best pieces of writing on the subject. This remarkable, gorgeous book is, he writes, 'a monument to the drovers' wives'.

Author : Scott Rankin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780733610691
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Box the Pony written by Scott Rankin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The semi-autobiographical story of Leah Purcell - or her alter ego Stephanie - which traces the events of her life growing up on an impoverished Aboriginal mission in Queensland. Despite the poverty, violence, lack of education and opportunity, Stepanie is nurtured through the love of her family.

Author : John D. Brown
Publisher : Blacksword Books
ISBN 13 : 1940427185
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prey: The Drovers, Book 1 written by John D. Brown and published by Blacksword Books. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This job with the drover just might save Ferran, if it doesn’t kill him first. Ferran, a scrappy youth, is doomed to slavery if he can’t gather the money his family owes the new Lord. After thieves beat and rob him, his prospects look dim. However, a mysterious drover shows up at the village. War with the Kingdom of Osson is imminent, and the drover needs to hire a few good hands to help him drive a herd of cattle to the mage queen for her army. It’s Ferran’s salvation! But this isn’t your regular drover, and it’s not your regular cattle drive.

Author : John D. Brown
Publisher : Blacksword Books
ISBN 13 : 1940427223
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sura: The Drovers, Book 3 written by John D. Brown and published by Blacksword Books. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody in their right mind would to travel through this place All Ferran wants to do is get the cattle to Broniss, get paid, and free his family from the threat of slavery. But an unexpected and terrible enemy takes most of the crew prisoner in the Blight. Ferran, Winwallom, and Sura, the fierce Mashadian girl none of the boys trust, must free them. But how will they when the trio is vastly outnumbered, they’re days from help, and other things lurk in the woods?