Author: Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513293885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
The Squatter’s Dream (1875) is a novel by Rolf Boldrewood, the pseudonym of Australian novelist Thomas Browne. A squatter himself for nearly twenty-five years, he came to know the ways of life on the outskirts of civilization, which allowed him to lead a peaceful, uncomplicated, and inexpensive existence. Originally serialized in Australian weekly magazines, Browne’s work as Rolf Bolfrewood is an incomparable record of colonial Australia, where outlaws and speculators lived side by side on land stolen from the continent’s Aboriginal peoples. “The climate in which his abode was situated was temperate, from latitude and proximity to the coast. It was cold in the winter, but many a ton of she-oak and box had burned away in the great stone chimney, before which Jack used to toast himself in the cold nights, after a long day’s riding after cattle.” Jack Redgrave leads the kind of existence most men would dream of: a comfortable home, plenty of food, a beautiful property, and enough books to keep him curious about the world beyond the wilderness. Despite this, he begins to grow dissatisfied, dreaming of ways to increase his wealth and forgetting the reasons that first drew him to the squatting lifestyle. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Rolf Boldrewood’s The Squatter’s Dream is a classic work of Australian literature reimagined for modern readers.
The Squatter's Dream
Author: Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513293885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
The Squatter’s Dream (1875) is a novel by Rolf Boldrewood, the pseudonym of Australian novelist Thomas Browne. A squatter himself for nearly twenty-five years, he came to know the ways of life on the outskirts of civilization, which allowed him to lead a peaceful, uncomplicated, and inexpensive existence. Originally serialized in Australian weekly magazines, Browne’s work as Rolf Bolfrewood is an incomparable record of colonial Australia, where outlaws and speculators lived side by side on land stolen from the continent’s Aboriginal peoples. “The climate in which his abode was situated was temperate, from latitude and proximity to the coast. It was cold in the winter, but many a ton of she-oak and box had burned away in the great stone chimney, before which Jack used to toast himself in the cold nights, after a long day’s riding after cattle.” Jack Redgrave leads the kind of existence most men would dream of: a comfortable home, plenty of food, a beautiful property, and enough books to keep him curious about the world beyond the wilderness. Despite this, he begins to grow dissatisfied, dreaming of ways to increase his wealth and forgetting the reasons that first drew him to the squatting lifestyle. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Rolf Boldrewood’s The Squatter’s Dream is a classic work of Australian literature reimagined for modern readers.
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513293885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
The Squatter’s Dream (1875) is a novel by Rolf Boldrewood, the pseudonym of Australian novelist Thomas Browne. A squatter himself for nearly twenty-five years, he came to know the ways of life on the outskirts of civilization, which allowed him to lead a peaceful, uncomplicated, and inexpensive existence. Originally serialized in Australian weekly magazines, Browne’s work as Rolf Bolfrewood is an incomparable record of colonial Australia, where outlaws and speculators lived side by side on land stolen from the continent’s Aboriginal peoples. “The climate in which his abode was situated was temperate, from latitude and proximity to the coast. It was cold in the winter, but many a ton of she-oak and box had burned away in the great stone chimney, before which Jack used to toast himself in the cold nights, after a long day’s riding after cattle.” Jack Redgrave leads the kind of existence most men would dream of: a comfortable home, plenty of food, a beautiful property, and enough books to keep him curious about the world beyond the wilderness. Despite this, he begins to grow dissatisfied, dreaming of ways to increase his wealth and forgetting the reasons that first drew him to the squatting lifestyle. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Rolf Boldrewood’s The Squatter’s Dream is a classic work of Australian literature reimagined for modern readers.
Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915
Author: Kevin Starr
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199923256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but also on the rest of the country.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199923256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but also on the rest of the country.
Adeline's Dream
Author: Linda Aksomitis
Publisher: Coteau Books
ISBN: 9781550503234
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
12-year-old Adeline Mueller struggles to make a place for herself when her family comes to Canada from Germany.
Publisher: Coteau Books
ISBN: 9781550503234
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
12-year-old Adeline Mueller struggles to make a place for herself when her family comes to Canada from Germany.
Murray's Magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, 1905–1963
Author: Tabitha Kanogo
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821444468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This is a study of the genesis, evolution, adaptation and subordination of the Kikuyu squatter labourers, who comprised the majority of resident labourers on settler plantations and estates in the Rift Valley Province of the White Highlands. The story of the squatter presence in the White Highlands is essentially the story of the conflicts and contradictions that existed between two agrarian systems, the settler plantation economy and the squatter peasant option. Initially, the latter developed into a viable but much resented sub-system which operated within and, to some extent, in competition with settler agriculture. This study is largely concerned with the dynamics of the squatter presence in the White Highlands and with the initiative, self-assertion and resilience with which they faced their subordinate position as labourers. In their response to the machinations of the colonial system, the squatters were neither passive nor malleable but, on the contrary, actively resisted coercion and subordination as they struggled to carve out a living for themselves and their families.... It is a firm conviction of this study that Kikuyu squatters played a crucial role in the initial build-up of the events that led to the outbreak of the Mau Mau war. —from the introduction
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821444468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This is a study of the genesis, evolution, adaptation and subordination of the Kikuyu squatter labourers, who comprised the majority of resident labourers on settler plantations and estates in the Rift Valley Province of the White Highlands. The story of the squatter presence in the White Highlands is essentially the story of the conflicts and contradictions that existed between two agrarian systems, the settler plantation economy and the squatter peasant option. Initially, the latter developed into a viable but much resented sub-system which operated within and, to some extent, in competition with settler agriculture. This study is largely concerned with the dynamics of the squatter presence in the White Highlands and with the initiative, self-assertion and resilience with which they faced their subordinate position as labourers. In their response to the machinations of the colonial system, the squatters were neither passive nor malleable but, on the contrary, actively resisted coercion and subordination as they struggled to carve out a living for themselves and their families.... It is a firm conviction of this study that Kikuyu squatters played a crucial role in the initial build-up of the events that led to the outbreak of the Mau Mau war. —from the introduction
The Squatter and the Don
Author: MarÕa Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611922950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Squatter and the Don, originally published in San Francisco in 1885, is the first fictional narrative written and published in English from the perspective of the conquered Mexican population that, despite being granted the full rights of citizenship under the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848, was, by 1860, a subordinated and marginalized national minority.
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611922950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Squatter and the Don, originally published in San Francisco in 1885, is the first fictional narrative written and published in English from the perspective of the conquered Mexican population that, despite being granted the full rights of citizenship under the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848, was, by 1860, a subordinated and marginalized national minority.
The Lone Hand
Author:
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Category : Australian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Australian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
In Bad Company
Author: Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Bushrangers
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Publisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Bushrangers
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Twenty Years of My Life
Author: Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
In Bad Coompany and Other Stories
Author: Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752401923
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: In Bad Coompany and Other Stories by Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752401923
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: In Bad Coompany and Other Stories by Rolf Boldrewood