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Legends of the Outback
Rockhampton
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Central Queensland University Press
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2002
Z1205928
2002
selected work
biography
'Heroes, visionaries and eccentrics…
'Outback writer Marie Mahood is the author of the much loved Icing on the Damper and A Bunch of Strays. In the 1960’s she raised cattle and kids on the world’s most remote cattle station, Mongrel Downs, in the Tanami Desert.
'Here she writes about the heroes, visionaries and eccentrics of Australia’s vast outback. Her thirty-two characters include the greatest drover and Gulf trekker of them all, Nat Buchanan: prince of poddy-dodgers Harry Redford; the cattle king Sidney Kidman; outback surveyor supreme and all-round good bloke Len Beadell; Aboriginal warrior Jandamarra; Mat Wilson at the N.T. Depot store; gun shearer Jackie Howe; drover Edna Zigenbine on the Murranji Track; explorer and goldmine Christy Palmerston in the heartland of Cape York Peninsula; eccentrics such as the Gulf Hero and the Barkly Hermit; and drovers who were also painters and poets of repute.' (Publication summary)
- y Lipstick, Swag and Sweating : Memoirs of a Patrol Padre's Wife : the Australian Inland Mission 1947-1955 Rockhampton : Central Queensland University Press , 1998 Z1205931 1998 single work autobiography
- y Legends of the Red Heart : Twenty-six Heroes of Inland Australia Rockhampton : Central Queensland University Press , 2002 Z1206191 2002 selected work biography Rockhampton : Central Queensland University Press , 2002
- y Horsebells and Hobblechains Jeff Hill (editor), Rockhampton : Central Queensland University Press , 2003 Z1205921 2003 anthology autobiography Rockhampton : Central Queensland University Press , 2003
- y Horsemen of the Outback : Their Spurs and Their Spurmakers Rockhampton : Central Queensland University Press , 2003 Z1206187 2003 selected work biography Rockhampton : Central Queensland University Press , 2003