- Bib ID:
- 1818754
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- MacDonald, Alexander, 1878-1939
- Description:
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- London : Blackie and Son, 1908
- ix, 352, 16 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 19 cm.
- Series:
- Marcie Muir collection of Australian children's books.
- Summary:
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'Dick Gordon and Jack Meredith, 18 years old and newly arrived in Australia, explore the opal fields from Victoria to the border between south-west Queensland and north-eastern SA. The boys spend all day cycling to the opal fields of White Cliffs in outback heat, without a trace of sunburn or heat exhaustion. Macdonald includes the complete verses of '"Waltzing Matilda", sightings of bunyips, a grand corroboree, and a voyage down the Darling which borders on the burlesque' (Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature 271).
- Notes:
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- Includes catalogue of books published by Blackie and Son.
- For children.
- Cited In:
- Muir, M. A bibliography of Australian children's books, 4452
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1939
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1908
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