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Author: Patsy Kemp
Publisher: Brolga Publishing
Published: 2019-10-01
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0648697010
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Leah Purcell
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Published: 2019-12-03
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1760144266
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Colin Kemp
Publisher:
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780645443547
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Patricia Blackwell
Publisher: Brolga Pub.
Published: 2017-01-24
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781925367751
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Patricia Blackwell
Publisher:
Published: 2021-05-06
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780648958000
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drovers hold an iconic place in Australian Identity, due to the courage and perserverance needed to transport cattle and sheep hundreds of miles through rural New South Wales and Queensland! Smoko was on the roadside, lamb chops grilled over the open fire on an upside-down camp oven lid. What of the women and children who travelled with the Boss Drover? How do they fare? Patsy tells a humerous story as a 'Drover's Daughter living in the Bush,' and her life while travelling with six siblings, the odd workman, numerous horses and dogs. One of her fondest memories was her father plonking her on the back of a sheep and telling her to 'ride the bastard over the bridge love.' So here was was five years old Patsy, clinging on to the wool of the sheep as it walked over the bridge, with the flowing water just 20 feet below the bridge. The Education Deptartment eventually caught up with the family, the kids whom to date had not being schooled, so the kids had to do schooling by correspondence while moving every day and living out of the back of a truck. Wood had to gathered each day to cook the meals and on cold winter nights to keep the family warm as they sat around the fire eating their meal. Meals was finished with a mug of tea out of the 'billy' simmering away, hanging of the tripod dangling over the fire. The best times when another droving caught up with them when the kids could play in the dark and the adults playing cards and yarning into the night with the kerosene lantern helping the light from the fire which also kept the card players warm, this could last into the night but everyone was out of bed at dawn to start the day with the stock.
Author: Deanna Dunham
Publisher: Pendulum Books
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780956680150
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Frank Moorhouse
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 2017-10-30
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0143784838
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Susan Brocker
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Published: 2012-06-01
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1775490025
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Tell us where you've got the nugget and this will go well for you,' the tall man with the horrible voice rasped. Rumour is flying around the west coast gold fields that tom McGee has struck it rich and found a nugget of gold as big as a man's fist. So no one is surprised when next his campsite is found wrecked and abandoned. Men have been killed for a lot less on the tough goldfields of 1860s New Zealand. But one person is convinced tom is not dead. His headstrong daughter, Charlotte. Solving the mystery is not her first task, though. First, she must get to the coast. A skilful horse rider, she disguises herself as a boy and joins a cattle drive across the Southern Alps. to survive the dangerous drive over Arthur's Pass and to keep her identity hidden from the vicious trail boss, she'll need the help of her dog, her horse, and her father's friend, tama. She knows she can do it - she has to - but what will she find? And will her new American friend, Joseph, help or hinder her quest? Charlie is in for the ride of her life - and the stakes couldn't be higher.
Author: Paula Brackston
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-01-29
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1250022584
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →New York Times bestselling author Paula Brackston transports readers to the windswept mountains of Wales in The Winter Witch, an enthralling tale of love and magic. In her small early nineteenth century Welsh town, there is no one quite like Morgana. She is small and quick and pretty enough to attract a suitor, but there are things that set her apart from other girls. Though her mind is sharp she has not spoken since she was a young girl. Her silence is a mystery, as well as her magic—the household objects that seem to move at her command, the bad luck that visits those who do her ill. Concerned for her safety, her mother is anxious to see Morgana married, and Cai Jenkins, the widowed drover from the far hills who knows nothing of the rumors that swirl around her, seems the best choice. After her wedding, Morgana is heartbroken at leaving her mother, and wary of this man, whom she does not know, and who will take her away to begin a new life. But she soon falls in love with Cai's farm and the wild mountains that surround it. Here, where frail humans are at the mercy of the elements, she thrives, her wild nature and her magic blossoming. Cai works to understand the beautiful, half-tamed creature he has chosen for a bride, and slowly, he begins to win Morgana's affections. It's not long, however, before her strangeness begins to be remarked upon in her new village. A dark force is at work there—a person who will stop at nothing to turn the townspeople against Morgana, even at the expense of those closest to her. Forced to defend her home, her man, and herself from all comers, Morgana must learn to harness her power, or she will lose everything in this beautifully written, enchanting novel. "An enthralling tale of love and magic." –USA Today
Author: Janice Drover
Publisher:
Published: 2017-03-03
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781771174732
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Miracles Happen is the story of a tragic event that happened in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland and Labrador, in 2010. On August 13, Rendell Drover, a respected fisherman in the community, was injured in an industrial accident that nearly claimed his life. In this memoir, Rendell's wife, Janice, recalls in heartbreaking detail the weeks and months that followed. Throughout his recovery, Rendell underwent a series of dangerous medical procedures . . . and lived. Doctors agreed his survival was nothing short of miraculous. Today, Rendell Drover, known locally as "the big-hearted fisherman from Upper Island Cove," is alive and well. His story will inspire readers and remind them that, in times of crisis, miracles really can happen.
