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Cargando... Black Kettle and Full Moon: Daily Life in a Vanished Australia (2003)por Geoffrey Blainey
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A very easy to read history of how people managed their daily life in the early days of Australian settlement and the inventive way they overcame obstacles. Full of interesting facts that although not so far in the past have almost been forgotten - such as, the largest inland coach, drawn by 22 horses could carry up to 60-70 passengers, or that the cost of sending a telegram to England was equal to 3 weeks labourers wages - or that ice was shipped from Boston , or that wholesalers of alcohol paid by the pipe, the butt, the punch or the hogshead. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In the bestselling Black Kettle and Full Moon, master storyteller Geoffrey Blainey takes us on another absorbing journey - a guided tour of a vanished Australia. Covering the years from the first gold rush to World War I. Blainey paints a fascinating picture of how our forebears lived - in the outback, in towns and cities, at sea and on land. He looks at all aspects of daily life, from billycans to brass bands, from ice-making to etiquette, from pipes to pubs. The engaging text is further brought alive by an evocative selection of contemporary illustrations by artists such as Julian Ashton.This is Geoffrey Blainey doing what he does best bringing to life for the modern reader the sighs and sounds and smells of another time. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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All about how people lived their lives in those times , from a very practical perspective eg why particular meetings were held at particular times of the month ...because that was when ther would be a full or full is he moon to enable people to navigate themselves to and from the meeting from their homes
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27 December 2016
(Dont know why this was not recorded earlier...was read in past 5 years ) ( )