Author: Marion Houldsworth

Barefoot Through the Bindies: Growing Up in North Queensland in the Early 1900s

By: Marion Houldsworth

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Australia, Boolarong Press : 2012

Seller ID: 003980

ISBN-13: 9781921920615

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Growing up in North Queensland in the early 1900's. Australian children of this new millennium takes for granted a lofestyle that includes videos, T.V. Soapies, DVD's, computer games. But the children of a hundred years ago, the Federation era, had a different set of expectations. They walked barefoot through the bindies to school. Their homes were barkhuts with ant-beds for floors. they harnessed their billy-goat carts to fetch wood and water. This earlier generation of North Queenslanders lived with floods and droughts. They knew grinding poverty and they knew hard work, but they were proud ...
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From the Gulf to God Knows Where

By: Marion Houldsworth

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Australia, Boolarong Press : 2014

Seller ID: 003978

ISBN-13: 9781921920769

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Charlie and Pauline Rayment wouldn't live anywhere but the Outback. Charlie brought Pauline as a bride to 'Kurran', in the ranges of the Diamantina catchment. Pauline faced the wilderness while Charlie carved a property from the harsh environment. Their story typifies this new collection by Marion Houldsworth. Readers share the Outback experience at one remove; wake face-to-face with a rock-python, are sucked down in a whirlpool, trapped inside a water-tank, help a neighbour bury a dead child. They swim cattle across the flooded Burdekin, and, like Clancy of old, tail 'twelve-fifty fats' down ...
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Maybe it'll Rain Tomorrow: Living in Australia's Outback # Sequel to From the Gulf to God Knows Where

By: Marion Houldsworth

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Australia, Boolarong Press : 2012

Seller ID: 003981

ISBN-13: 9781921920851

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Maybe It'll Rain Tomorrow is the perfect title for Marion Houldsworth's Volume Two of From the Gulf to God Knows Where. Rain is a lifeblood and a ubiquitous topic of conversation in the bush. It can mean the difference between success and failure; life and death. 'Maybe it'll rain tomorrow' is a catch phrase used by country people and expresses the optimism and courage they show in the face of often almost overwhelming adversity. Critique: This second volume of From the Gulf to God Knows Where is a tribute to some wonderful people. It is also a tribute to Marion Houldsworth's work. Readers...
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Red Dust Rising: The Story of Ray Fryer of Urapunga Station

By: Marion Houldsworth

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Australia, Boolarong Press : 2011

Seller ID: 003979

ISBN-13: 9781921920165

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

This is the inspiring story of a northern cattleman who built up the Urapunga cattle station from nothing. From the 1950s to the 1990s, he lived rough and worked hard. He worked closely with the tribal Aborigines, made Urapunga a dry station, coped with the many crocodiles in the Roper River, fought against cattle diseases, hunted buffalo, built himself a homestead and survived. Ray Fryer says of himself, "I always admired those old-time pioneers, the Duracks and the Buchanans. I wanted to do something like them; something worthwhile." So, when the government resumed the Fryer property for an ...
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Author: Marion Houldsworth

Barefoot Through the Bindies: Growing Up in North Queensland in the Early 1900s

From the Gulf to God Knows Where

Maybe it'll Rain Tomorrow: Living in Australia's Outback # Sequel to From the Gulf to God Knows Where

Red Dust Rising: The Story of Ray Fryer of Urapunga Station