The Book of the Bush
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George Dunderdale
(4,5 Sterne; 4 Bewertungen)
"While the world was young, nations could be founded peaceably. There was plenty of unoccupied country, and when two neighbouring patriarchs found their flocks were becoming too numerous for the pasture, one said to the other: "Let there be no quarrel, I pray, between thee and me; the whole earth is between us, and the land is watered as the garden of Paradise. If thou wilt go to the east, I will go to the west; or if thou wilt go to the west, I will go to the east." So they parted in peace.
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A bit of a mixed bag
Timothy Ferguson
(4 Sterne)
The quotation from the start of the book (used here as the blurb) does it no favours, because the author likes to start each chapter with a bit of high-brow, to set the tone, and the rest of the book is not like that at all. Basically its a set of articles which have been repacked into a single book. Some are biographical, some are historical, a suprising number are about New Zealand or the US, given the title. It suffers as like a lot of biography in that some of the characters don't seem to begin or end, but there are sharp little vingettes made up of tiny incidents which are excellent. The readers do a solid job of it (even some of the Australians mispronounce the out of date slang, particularly rracist terms no longer used, and so you have to forgive the Americans for any minor slips). I'm an Australian and particularly like Australian history, and have visited some of the sites mentioned, so perhaps for me the rating is a bit higher than it would be for other people, lacking my "core audience" interest.
Mark Twain of Ausy
oldguy
(4,5 Sterne)
Dry sarcastic humor. plenty of history. I was surprised to hear the section on Joliet Illinois USA, it was cool. Starved Rock was two native tribes.