| Main Title: |
Bunyips : Australia's folklore of fear / Robert Holden and Nicholas Holden. |
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| Author: |
Holden, Robert
Thomas, Della
Green, Pauline
Holden, Nicholas
National Library of Australia
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| Imprint: |
Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 2001. |
| Collation: |
v, 226 p. : ill., facsims, bib., pbk ; 24 cm. |
| Summary: |
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.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. |
| Subject: |
Folklore
Tales
Bunyips.
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| ISBN: |
0642107327 : |
| Notes: |
"Edited by Pauline Green and Della Thomas" -- Verso t.p.
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