Product Description: Over the years, the experiences of soldiers at war become the stuff of legend: tales of great bravery, battlefield wins, and also the tragic losses and poignant moments. Great Anzac Stories gathers iconic stories of Australians at war—on the front line and at home...read more

Product Description: From one of our master storytellers, author of the bestselling Great Australian Stories, comes another collection of yarns, tall tales, bush legends, and colorful characters. Taking us from the deep outback to the glistening sea, they go to the heart of what makes us distinctively Australian...read more

Product Description: From pioneer tales to urban myths, folklore expert Graham Seal has gathered some of the best Australian stories from around the country, and this new edition contains 10 extra stories. Australia has a rich tradition of story telling that reflects a unique history and experience...read more

Product Description: Verandah Music surveys a broad range of traditional Australian folk music. Though the older English-language traditions of bush-singing and bush dances predominate, these are contrasted with other traditions found in Australian: religious hymns, Maltese ghana music, army songs, gumleaf instrumentals, children's rhymes, ailan music from the Torres Strait and other such delights...read more

Product Description: Book by Davey, Gwenda Beed, Seal, Graham (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Entries describe the origins and deeds of folk heroes as they have existed in folktales, songs, oral tradition, and other folklore genres. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A lively linguistic analysis of our distinctive forms of speech drawn from a range of everyday experiences, including work, relaxation, gambling, drinking, family life, sport, crime, war, politics and sexual relations.

Product Description: Highwaymen, badmen and bushrangers, both mythical and historical, have been part of folklore for centuries. Remembered and recreated through song, stories and film, this cultural tradition has been remarkably resilient across time and place...read more

Product Description: This is the first book to investigate Australian folklore as a topic of serious study. It provides a framework from which a coherent view of social development is expressed through different forms of folklore, and emphasizes the continuing process of the creation of folklore using both past and current examples...read more