Great Australian Stories

✍ Scribed by Seal, Graham

• Book ID: 109700180
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Series: Yarns and Tall Tales 2
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781742374734

✦ Synopsis

From pioneer tales to urban myths, folklore expert Graham Seal has gathered some of the best Australian stories from around the country. Tall tales and true, these are the stories we tell ourselves over and over again.

'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 ready to tell their stories.' - From the foreword by Warren Fahey

Australia has a rich tradition of storytelling that reflects our unique history and experience. Great Australian Stories gathers some of the best of our stories from colonial times to the present, with bush yarns, tall stories, urban myths, and tales of the mysterious and downright weird.

With ten new stories, this second edition of the bestselling Great Australian...