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Great Australian Stories: Legends, Yarns and Tall Tales by Graham Seal
Category: Australiana
'Great Australian Stories is true to its title as it wanders from bush track to spooky hollow, follows the path of yowies and bunyips, searches for Lasseter's Reef, meets Dad and Dave and, on a different path, Henny-Penny, and then rambles into the cities where just as many entertaining characters are r ...Show more
Great Australian Stories: Legends, Yarns and Tall Tales by Graham Seal
Category: Australiana
Australia has a rich tradition of story-telling that reflects our unique history and experience. Great Australian Stories gathers some of the best stories from colonial times to the present, with bush yarns, tall stories, urban myths, and tales of the mysterious and downright weird. This is an Australia ...Show more
Great Australian Urban Myths - The Cane Toad High by Graham Seal
Category: Australiana
We like to think that we live in an age of reason and rationality, that uncertainty and the unknown have largely been eliminated by technology and science. But it seems that we have nagging doubts. Continually, we tell each other odd tales about ankle slashers and hairy-armed women in the shopping mall. ...Show more
Great Bush Stories - Colourful Yarns and True Tales from Life on the Land by Graham Seal
Category: Australiana
The tradition of yarns from the bush goes back to the earliest days in Australia. Colorful rural characters and dramatic incidents parade through Australian history and folklore, entertaining and appalling in equal measure. Graham Seal has gathered classic and little-known stories from the time when mos ...Show more
Great Convict Stories - Dramatic and Moving Tales from Australia's Brutal Early Years by Graham Seal
Category: Australiana
Graham Seal brings to life the brutal Australian convict transportation system with stories of notorious criminals, colourful characters, and harsh punishments. There were also happy endings for the men and women for whom transportation was an opportunity to start afresh in a new land.
Larrikan Bush Tales by Graham Seal
Category: Australiana
From one of our master storytellers, author of the bestselling Great Australian Stories, comes another collection of yarns, tall tales, bush legends, and colorful characters. Taking us from the deep outback to the glistening sea, they go to the heart of what makes us distinctively Australian.
Larrikins, Bush Tales and Other Great Australian Stories by Graham Seal
Category: Australiana
Yarns, legends, myths, jokes and anecdotes are our national lifeblood. The home-grown and borrowed tales, told and re-told over generations, offer an insight into the larger national story of which every Australian has a part...Was Breaker Morant the Gatton murderer? What happened to Sniffling Jimmy and ...Show more
Savage Shore: Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery to Australia by Graham Seal
Category: History
Remarkable stories from the dangerous early voyages to Australia - long before Captain Cook claimed it for the English - reveal a very different history than the triumphal British version we learnt at school.
The Big Book of Great Australian Bush Yarns by Graham Seal
Category: Australiana
Two of Graham Seal's bestselling collections of stories from around Australia, now in one volume.