- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: iUniverse (3 Aug 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0595191347
- ISBN-13: 978-0595191345
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16.2 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,757,002 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When gold was first discovered in the arid regions of Western Australia it attracted from all parts of the world the rich, the adventuous, the hard-working family man, the characters, the villians, and a miscellaneous array of misfits. Together, they created a kind of history the author has endeavoured to record with both pathos and humour.These vivid stories have authentic backgrounds and some stem from gossip, yarns, pub talk, with origins that are hazy. But nobody who lived throughout the early days of the pioneer town of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, would deny the possibility of any of them.
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Born into the hard and thankless world of a pioneer gold-mining town where suffering was unspeakable, Filton Hebbard has always yearned to write. Now, grateful for those painful years that had so much to offer, his head is full of storiesand books! Tipsy Marsh is his second novel to come out of his early Kalgoorlie experience. Branigan, his first novel, remains one of the most vivid tales about pioneering life in the Australian outback. In Memories of Kalgoorlie: Tales from the Australian Outback he brings together picaresque and vivid stories, told with humour and pathos, which reveal the stark realities, the swift, sometimes cruel justice of the bush in the old mining days of Western Australia.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Tales for winter's evening.,
By oz (Bishop's Waltham U.K.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Memories of Kalgoorlie: Tales from the Australian Outback (Paperback)
A collection of short stories that have a simple beauty shot through them. The tales of shared hardship in an unforgiving environment amply demonstrate the morality of the men, women and children exposed to it. In part he plays a modern Easop, in others he portrays a bleak reality often with fond humour but always with the feel of experience. At its heart is the tale of the old man who read stories to children from a blank book. I have the impression that this is the author's attempt at recording the oral tradition of his youth and makes a firm stab at regaining 'those blue remembered hills' in '...that world fading fast'.
A joy to read. Oz
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mediocre tales of the Outback,
By W Boudville - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Memories of Kalgoorlie: Tales from the Australian Outback (Paperback)
The prose is not great. Journeyman actually. Quite pedestrian and at times rather leaden. This book will never join the ranks of storied Australian literature. But in its quite limited way, it describes the folklore around the Goldfields of Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie. The timeframe is vague, though probably in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Perhaps you can better appreciate the tales if you have been to Kalgoorlie. The ever present red Outback dust permeating your clothes. And the stifling heat of summer, which is typically translated to be half the year. Don't forget the flies. Now imagine it a century ago, with no air conditioning and no cars to quickly take you across the wide plains. Yuk. |
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