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The best Australian sea stories

Haynes, Jim2012
Books, Manuscripts
The deep blue sea has been an endless source of inspiration, wonder and imagination to explorers and writers alike. Australia's history and national character have been defined by the fact that we live on an isolated island continent girt by sea
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Crows Nest Allen & Unwin 2012
Collation:
326 pages
Contents:
Introduction / Jim HaynesThe ocean beach / Wilfred MaillerTimeline / Jim HaynesThe days when the world was wide (excerpt) / Henry LawsonIt's out there ... somewhere / Jim HaynesCaptain Cook - a limerick / Jim HaynesVoyage to Sydney / Mark TwainThe bonny port of Sydney / Henry LawsonStar of the southern seas / Jim HaynesThe rime of the ancient mariner (excerpt) / Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe ablest seaman in the French navy / Ernest ScottExplorers / Jose-Maria de HerediaThe surgeon's journal / John WhiteSydney Cove, 1788 / Roderic QuinnThe boy who read Robinson Crusoe / Jim HaynesThe ships that won't go down / Henry LawsonThe voyage of the Janet Nicoll / Robert Louis StevensonRequiem / Robert Louis StevensonThe ones that got away / Jim HaynesThe Cyprus brig / Frank McNamaraCecil Rhodes and the shark / Mark TwainSharks are (relatively) harmless / Jim HaynesPassage to Melbourne / Jim HaynesBreak, break, break / Alfred TennysonFull up: the voyage of the Palapa / David Marr and Marian WilkinsonAt the tide's will / Roderic QuinnMystery of the Venus mutineers / Anthony BrownUnknown seas (excerpt) / George HortonA harbour full of bodies / Jim HaynesDunbar / Henry KendallComing across / Henry LawsonSydney-side (excerpt) / Henry LawsonThe war with The Banjo / Banjo PatersonThere's another blessed horse fell down / Banjo PatersonHurrah for old Ireland: the Catalpa rescue / Jim HaynesThe Catalpa / TraditonalA day on a lugger / Banjo PatersonThe pearl diver / Banjo PatersonRinged with menace / Jim HaynesLost with all hands / Peter MaceZaimis / Jim BendrodtThe sea and the hills (excerpt) / Rudyard KiplingOne way ticket / Jim HaynesHow Australian are you? / Jim HaynesThe pilots of Port Phillip Bay / Matt StirlingSea fear / Charles Souter
ISBN:
9781742371252 (paperback)
Language:
English
BRN:
49299
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