Great Australian outback school stories
Marsh, Bill, 1950-2013
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If your teacher commuted to school in a plane; if you had to watch out for bulls rather than traffic; if your pick-up was done by a horse - you probably went to an outback school. These stories capture the experience of life growing up in the outback.
Main title:
Great Australian outback school stories / by Bill 'Swampy' Marsh
Author:
Imprint:
Sydney South HarperCollins Publishers 2013
Collation:
303 pages
Notes:
ABC Books
Contents:
A blessed childhood -- A good news story -- A smile on their face -- About George -- Amazing -- Ambidextrous -- Balls -- Better than the circus -- Big bogong -- Bird calls -- Breaking bread -- Burying God -- Characters young and old -- Cuts -- Dead on the dunny -- Dobbed in -- Dog tired -- Five-star welcome -- For your own good -- Freddy the frog -- George -- Goats -- Gotcha! -- Hair today, gone tomorrow -- Hiz -- How it was -- If you could -- Ingenuity -- Just like a sentence -- Little scoundrel -- Manners -- Miss Sunshine -- My strength -- Not one word -- Nothing else other than farming -- One woman and her cow -- Peggy Eldridge -- Plugger Lockett's mum -- Rattling bones -- School days at Mount Mary -- Sneezes -- Swapping sandwiches -- Swearing -- Telling a tale out of school -- That was their education -- That's art -- The best means of defence -- The bush classroom -- The most important thing -- The sentence -- The Stawell gift -- The volunteer air observer corps -- Their home-patch of dirt -- There's a redback on the ... -- They wouldn't do that these days -- Things that us kids knew -- Those first few weeks -- To find a better life -- To Pine Creek, whenever -- Welcome to Marble bar -- We'll send for Clarry
ISBN:
9780733325496 (paperback)
Dewey class:
371.1009 GRE
Local class:
371.1009
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2871
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 371.1009 GRE | Available |