Black kettle and full moon : daily life in a vanished Australia / Geoffrey Blainey.

By: Blainey, Geoffrey, 1930-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Camberwell, Vic. : Penguin/Viking, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Description: ix, 484 p. : ill., facsims. ; 24 cmContent type: still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 014300266X (pbk.) :; 0670041327 (hbk.) :Other title: Daily life in a vanished AustraliaSubject(s): 1800 - 1999 | Westfield Literary Prize Nominations (2004) | Manners and customs | Australia - Social life and customs - 19th century | Australia - Social life and customs - 20th century | Australia - Social life and customs | Australia - History | Australia | Australia -- History -- 20th century | Australia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century | Australia -- Social life and customs -- 1788-1900 | Australia -- History | Australia -- History -- 1788-1900 | Australia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century | History, 1801-1900 | History, 1901-1945 | Social conditions | Foods | Lifestyle | Quality of lifeGenre/Form: History. Additional physical formats: Online version: Black kettle and full moon.DDC classification: 994 LOC classification: DU107.B63 2003
Contents:
Part 1. Ocean and moon -- 1. Moon, sun and stars -- 2. The dimming of candlelight -- 3. Across the seas -- 4. Letters, cameras and that magic wire -- 5. Coo-ee, bell and silver tongue -- 6. Gold watches and sovereigns -- Part 2. The black kettle sings -- 7. The full taste of meat -- 8. Did a woman ever eat more? -- 9. Potato and sparrow -- 10. The sparkle of Boston ice -- 11. To tipple and to smoke -- 12. In that black billy can -- 13. Restaurants and general stores -- 14. On pricing a way of life.
Summary: A lively and fascinating journey into Australian daily life in the period from the first gold rushes to the World War One. Blainey paints a fascinating picture of how our forebears lived - in the outback, in towns and cities, at sea and on land.
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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 431-463.

Part 1. Ocean and moon -- 1. Moon, sun and stars -- 2. The dimming of candlelight -- 3. Across the seas -- 4. Letters, cameras and that magic wire -- 5. Coo-ee, bell and silver tongue -- 6. Gold watches and sovereigns -- Part 2. The black kettle sings -- 7. The full taste of meat -- 8. Did a woman ever eat more? -- 9. Potato and sparrow -- 10. The sparkle of Boston ice -- 11. To tipple and to smoke -- 12. In that black billy can -- 13. Restaurants and general stores -- 14. On pricing a way of life.

A lively and fascinating journey into Australian daily life in the period from the first gold rushes to the World War One. Blainey paints a fascinating picture of how our forebears lived - in the outback, in towns and cities, at sea and on land.

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