Ocean Jack and Other Stories of Austral Bush and Plain (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Mudd, Christopher) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Ocean Jack and Other Stories of Austral Bush and Plain This second book is a result of the revolt against the misleading impressions which have been made about Australia and its people. By looking at an object for a long time, that object blocks the eyesight for other things. Too long have people been looking at the wretched caricatures of Austral life and conditions. The object of this book is to present the truth. Australia is not "a land of dingoes, bushrangers, diggers, and cockies, preying on each other." It is not the wretched habitat of "sundowners, squatters, and sheep, struggling against sand and heat!" Its wayback people are not a "drivelling, slovenly, slow, half imbecile lot of hayseeds and cow punchers." The bush people are not "a drinking, cursing, gambling, harddriving lot of spendthrifts. Australia is not the "land of sin, sorrow, and sand." Neither is it "the land of droughts, floods, and fires." These are the exceptions, and are - in a small degree - in most lands. Australia has not the monopoly of such characters and conditions. A reader of "Tales and Trails" said the tale "Leg Irons" was spoilt by allowing the hero to die. How could I let him live when he died? Thus let me say that the incidents in these books have really happened. The tales are not fiction. They are facts - threaded together - which have come within my own experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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