Bill Wannan’s Tales From Back O’ Bourke by Bill Wannan

Bill Wannan’s Tales From Back O’ Bourke

Traditional Australian Humour

by Bill Wannan

Illustrated by Vane Lindesay

Rigby, 1967, [First Edition], black and white illustrated plates (line drawings), hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing, bumping, creasing chipping and small tears, sticker residue to front cover (see photographs)

“New chums, bosses and braggarts have long been traditional butts of Australian humour, which usually relies for much of its effect on dead-pan delivery.  For sheer presence of mind, take the swaggie caught by the squatter in the act of killing a sheep.  “Caught red-handed!” roars the squatter.  “Yes…and I’ll kill any man’s sheep that tries to bite me,” is the undaunted reply.  Then there’s’ the tall story vein of humour, like the one about the size of the mossies at a certain waterhole outside Newcastle.”

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