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Daily life on the author's farm, 'Cumberdeen', in the Namoi River region, New South Wales.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
North Ryde,
Ryde - Gladesville - Hunters Hill area,
Northwest Sydney,
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Angus and Robertson
, 1989 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- There are Equally Lovable Places to Live, But None Better, single work prose (p. 5-8)
- Townsmen have No Idea of the Authority of the Weather. It Overseas Our Lives..., single work prose (p. 9-11)
- We Cut...Anything that Will Bend the Flames and Vary the Pattern, single work prose (p. 12-15)
- ...So Different a Land it was More a New Planet Than a New Continent, single work prose (p. 16-19)
- But Always our Visitors Hope to See Animals, single work prose (p. 21-23)
- All That is Left of the House are the Ironbark Blocks it Stood On, single work prose (p. 24-26)
- The Abattoir is Especially Grim in the Early Morning, single work prose (p. 27-29)
- It is Superior Stock, the Product of Our Paddocks. We Grew It, single work prose (p. 30-32)
- Flocks of these Birds Dance in Graceful Patterns..., single work prose (p. 33-36)
- They Like to Have their Saws Screaming by First Light, single work prose (p. 37-40)
- One Savours Sweet Air and a Memory of Rich Wine, single work prose (p. 41-44)
- Letting the Grass Grow Solves the Problem..., single work prose (p. 45-47)
- Their Job is Much More Exacting than That of a Doctor, single work prose (p. 51-54)
- ...We Head Roughly North to Find Unknown Wonders, single work prose (p. 55-56)
- The Aborigines, too, Treated the Trees with Special Care, single work prose (p. 57-58)
- You're Booming in Here Right Now. You're Pushing Just on Seven, single work prose (p. 59-61)
- We Breakfasted on Pawpaw and Pineapple Ripened Deliciously on the Plants, single work prose (p. 63-64)
- But Mostly the City is Pleasantly New and Pleasantly Old..., single work prose (p. 65-68)
- In Many Places the Canopy Closed Overhead and We Drove Through Green Tunnels, single work prose (p. 69-71)
- We Pushed our Four-Wheel Drives to the Limit, then We Got Out and Pushed Ourselves, single work prose (p. 72-75)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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The Poetics and Practicalities of Writing
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Writing Histories: Imagination and Narration 2009; 'Inga Clendinnen, an outstanding and imaginative historian, recently confessed that when she asked a class of new history graduates which historians they read for pleasure, they laughed! ‘I knew why they laughed’, she explained sadly. It’s because so many scholars compromise communication with pompous posturing; they are too busy staking out intellectual territory and warding others off it; they are too busy digging in their fields isolating ‘stone-hard, stone-cold facts’ to bother looking up or around; they are so furiously in pursuit of ‘objectivity’ that they delete themselves from their scripts and employ a weird, passionless prose. Clendinnen says that she enjoys reading great historians, like E.P. Thompson, for the same reason she enjoys reading great novelists—they offer an entrée into richly imagined worlds. But, she confesses, there is a difference. For her, when reading non-fiction, the bliss is tempered and intensified by a critical alertness and an undertow of moral implication not present in what she calls ‘the limpid realms of fiction’.' (Introduction) -
The North, Seen Through Focused Eyes
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newcastle Herald , 23 December 1989; (p. 10)
— Review of Doorways : A Year of the Cumberdeen Diaries 1989 selected work prose
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The North, Seen Through Focused Eyes
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newcastle Herald , 23 December 1989; (p. 10)
— Review of Doorways : A Year of the Cumberdeen Diaries 1989 selected work prose -
The Poetics and Practicalities of Writing
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Writing Histories: Imagination and Narration 2009; 'Inga Clendinnen, an outstanding and imaginative historian, recently confessed that when she asked a class of new history graduates which historians they read for pleasure, they laughed! ‘I knew why they laughed’, she explained sadly. It’s because so many scholars compromise communication with pompous posturing; they are too busy staking out intellectual territory and warding others off it; they are too busy digging in their fields isolating ‘stone-hard, stone-cold facts’ to bother looking up or around; they are so furiously in pursuit of ‘objectivity’ that they delete themselves from their scripts and employ a weird, passionless prose. Clendinnen says that she enjoys reading great historians, like E.P. Thompson, for the same reason she enjoys reading great novelists—they offer an entrée into richly imagined worlds. But, she confesses, there is a difference. For her, when reading non-fiction, the bliss is tempered and intensified by a critical alertness and an undertow of moral implication not present in what she calls ‘the limpid realms of fiction’.' (Introduction)
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Subjects:
- Namoi River, Far North NSW, New South Wales,
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