The Book of the Bush


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(4.5 Sterne; 4 Bewertungen)

"While the world was young, nations could be founded peaceably. There was plenty of unoccupied country, and when two neighbouring patriarchs found their flocks were becoming too numerous for the pasture, one said to the other: "Let there be no quarrel, I pray, between thee and me; the whole earth is between us, and the land is watered as the garden of Paradise. If thou wilt go to the east, I will go to the west; or if thou wilt go to the west, I will go to the east." So they parted in peace.

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Kapitel

01 - Purging Out The Old Leaven Pt 1 18:40 Gelesen von Magdalena
02 - Purging Out The Old Leaven Pt 2 21:33 Gelesen von Magdalena
03 - Purging Out The Old Leaven Pt 3 18:06 Gelesen von Magdalena
04 - First Settlers 3:44 Gelesen von Jessi
05 - Wreck Of The Convict Ship Neva, On King's Island 11:42 Gelesen von Jessi
06 - Discovery Of The River Hopkins 10:43 Gelesen von Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
07 - Whaling 20:17 Gelesen von May Low
08 - Out West In 1849 Pt 1 28:01 Gelesen von Linda Dodge
09 - Out West In 1849 Pt 2 28:20 Gelesen von Linda Dodge
10 - Out West In 1849 Pt 3 28:44 Gelesen von Linda Dodge
11 - Among The Diggers In 1853 Pt 1 19:39 Gelesen von Annise
12 - Among The Diggers In 1853 Pt 2 21:40 Gelesen von Annise
13 - Among The Diggers In 1853 Pt 3 20:22 Gelesen von Annise
14 - Among The Diggers In 1853 Pt 4 22:19 Gelesen von Annise
15 - A Bush Hermit 27:13 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
16 - The Two Shepherds Pt 1 23:15 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
17 - The Two Shepherds Pt 2 22:05 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
18 - The Two Shepherds Pt 3 25:23 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
19 - The Two Shepherds Pt 4 23:20 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
20 - The Two Shepherds Pt 5 21:36 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
21 - A Valiant Police-Sergeant 13:29 Gelesen von Annise
22 - White Slavers 10:42 Gelesen von evilnick
23 - The Government Stroke 24:03 Gelesen von May Low
24 - On The Ninety-Mile 11:17 Gelesen von Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
25 - Gippsland Pioneers 20:45 Gelesen von Algy Pug
26 - The Isle Of Blasted Hopes 25:02 Gelesen von Jonah Cummings
27 - Glengarry In Gippsland 17:33 Gelesen von Magdalena
28 - Wanted, A Cattle Market 21:36 Gelesen von Magdalena
29 - Two Special Surveys 22:11 Gelesen von Annise
30 - How Government Came To Gippsland 24:38 Gelesen von Magdalena
31 - Gippsland Under The Law 22:51 Gelesen von Mike Harris
32 - Until The Golden Dawn 22:53 Gelesen von Magdalena
33 - A New Rush 14:44 Gelesen von Magdalena
34 - Gippsland After Thirty Years 20:47 Gelesen von Magdalena
35 - Government Officers In The Bush 13:24 Gelesen von Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
36 - Seal Islands And Sealers 12:04 Gelesen von Annise
37 - A Happy Convict 20:13 Gelesen von Magdalena

Bewertungen

A bit of a mixed bag


(4 Sterne)

The quotation from the start of the book (used here as the blurb) does it no favours, because the author likes to start each chapter with a bit of high-brow, to set the tone, and the rest of the book is not like that at all. Basically its a set of articles which have been repacked into a single book. Some are biographical, some are historical, a suprising number are about New Zealand or the US, given the title. It suffers as like a lot of biography in that some of the characters don't seem to begin or end, but there are sharp little vingettes made up of tiny incidents which are excellent. The readers do a solid job of it (even some of the Australians mispronounce the out of date slang, particularly rracist terms no longer used, and so you have to forgive the Americans for any minor slips). I'm an Australian and particularly like Australian history, and have visited some of the sites mentioned, so perhaps for me the rating is a bit higher than it would be for other people, lacking my "core audience" interest.

Mark Twain of Ausy


(4.5 Sterne)

Dry sarcastic humor. plenty of history. I was surprised to hear the section on Joliet Illinois USA, it was cool. Starved Rock was two native tribes.