Keating p j foreword (1 resultados)

Hardback small octavo, no jacket, very good condition, pictorial cover, black & white text-photos, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear, small sticker scuff mark front free flyleaf. 77 pp. Lyn Scarff relates the legend of an unfortunate bullocky's simple poem about a dog sitting on his tuckerbox (1857, new version 1920s). This became an intrinsic part of Australia's rich folklore and heritage, and is immortalised by the dog-on-the-tuckerbox historical monument, near Gundagai, New South Wales, erected in 1932.…