When gold was first discovered in the arid regions of Western Australia it attracted from all parts of the world the rich, the adventuous, the hard-working family man, the characters, the villians, and a miscellaneous array of misfits. Together, they created a kind of history the author has endeavoured to record with both pathos and humour.These vivid stories have authentic backgrounds and some stem from gossip, yarns, pub talk, with origins that are hazy. But nobody who lived throughout the early days of the pioneer town of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, would deny the possibility of any of them.
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Born into the hard and thankless world of a pioneer gold-mining town where suffering was unspeakable, Filton Hebbard has always yearned to write. Now, grateful for those painful years that had so much to offer, his head is full of storiesand books! Tipsy Marsh is his second novel to come out of his early Kalgoorlie experience. Branigan, his first novel, remains one of the most vivid tales about pioneering life in the Australian outback. In Memories of Kalgoorlie: Tales from the Australian Outback he brings together picaresque and vivid stories, told with humour and pathos, which reveal the stark realities, the swift, sometimes cruel justice of the bush in the old mining days of Western Australia.
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mediocre tales of the Outback,
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The prose is not great. Journeyman actually. Quite pedestrian and at times rather leaden. This book will never join the ranks of storied Australian literature. But in its quite limited way, it describes the folklore around the Goldfields of Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie. The timeframe is vague, though probably in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Perhaps you can better appreciate the tales if you have been to Kalgoorlie. The ever present red Outback dust permeating your clothes. And the stifling heat of summer, which is typically translated to be half the year. Don't forget the flies. Now imagine it a century ago, with no air conditioning and no cars to quickly take you across the wide plains. Yuk.
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