Bunyips : Australia's folklore of fear / Robert Holden and Nicholas Holden
- Bib ID:
- 2615865
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Holden, Robert
- Description:
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- Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2001
- v, 226 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0642107327 (paperback)
- Series:
- Marcie Muir collection of Australian children's books.
- Summary:
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Reveals fascinating literature, folklore and superstitions. Includes extracts from stories about bunyips, featuring work by Edel Wignell, Rosa Campbell Praed, Catherine Stow, Dal Stiven and others.
- Full contents:
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- Anthropologists Meet the Bunyip
- The Bunyee Bunyee or Bunyip / Catherine Stow
- Entertaining Fears
- The Baleful Bunyip / Reid Whitly
- Australian Themes for Australian Literature
- Ironbark Bill Meets the Bunyip / Dal Stivens
- The Haunted World of the Australian Nursery
- The Hobyahs
- Picture the Bunyip
- Whirlpool in Lake George / Edel Wignall
- The Aboriginal Voice Sustains its Folklore of Fear
- The Mulgewongk's Cave / Henry Rankine
- Anthropologists Meet the Bunyip
- The Bunyee Bunyee or Bunyip / Catherine Stow
- Entertaining Fears
- The Baleful Bunyip / Reid Whitly
- Australian Themes for Australian Literature
- Ironbark Bill Meets the Bunyip / Dal Stivens
- The Haunted World of the Australian Nursery
- The Hobyahs
- Picture the Bunyip
- Whirlpool in Lake George / Edel Wignall
- The Aboriginal Voice Sustains its Folklore of Fear
- The Mulgewongk's Cave / Henry Rankine.
- Introduction
- Black Words on a White Page
- Australian Folklore Stories: The Bunyip
- Strange Encounters in the South Seas
- Mandeville's Travels
- The Wild Man From Botany Bay
- A Description of a Wonderful Large Wild Man or Monstrous Giant, Brought From Botany Bay
- The Folklore of Fear: Bunyips in the Billabongs, Hairy Men in the Hills
- The Bunyip in Coo-ee: Tales of Australian Life / Campbell Praed
- Yahoos, Yowies and Banksia Men
- The Bunyip of Barney's Elbow / Brian James
- Bones of Contention: Monster Skeletons and Bunyip Skulls
- The Haunt of the Bunyip / L.B Thoburn Clarke
- Introduction
- Black Words on a White Page
- Australian Folklore Stories: The Bunyip
- Strange Encounters in the South Seas
- Mandeville's Travels
- The Wild Man From Botany Bay
- A Description of a Wonderful Large Wild Man or Monstrous Giant, Brought From Botany Bay
- The Folklore of Fear: Bunyips in the Billabongs, Hairy Men in the Hills
- The Bunyip in Coo-ee: Tales of Australian Life / Campbell Praed
- Yahoos, Yowies and Banksia Men
- The Bunyip of Barney's Elbow / Brian James
- Bones of Contention: Monster Skeletons and Bunyip Skulls
- The Haunt of the Bunyip / L.B Thoburn Clarke.
- Notes:
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- "Edited by Pauline Green and Della Thomas" -- Verso t.p.
- Bibliography: p. 225-226.
- Subject:
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- Bunyips
- Monsters -- Australia
- Folklore -- Australia
- Literature and stories
- Stories and motifs - Devils, monsters, evil spirits, hairy men, bunyips
- Stories and motifs - Ancestor spirits
- Animals - Reptiles
- Wergaia / Wotjobaluk language (S17) (Vic SI54-15)
- Animals - Mammals - Marsupial megafauna - Diprotodons
- Anthropology
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers - European
- Settlement and contacts - Settlers
- Australia
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- Terms of Use:
- National Library of Australia 2001.
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