Peter Rees (1)
Autore di Anzac Girls: The Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses
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Peter Rees is the author of Bearing Witness which won the Nib's Anzac Centenary Literary Prize 2015. The award is worth $3000 and encompasses `books which illustrate the service and sacrifice of Australian servicemen and women, and families of the broader homefront during the First World War¿, and mostra altro will be judged according to the Nib's `general judging criteria of excellence in literary research, readability, literary merit and value to the community. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Only near the end of his life was he discovered by a writer and celebrated for a few months.
A well-researched and written. The occasional touch of humour.
It forcefully brings home how appallingly the aboriginals have been treated and marginalised in Australia.
p6, On the road to into Nindigully there is now a sign pointing to the pub and another reading, ' 'Free Beer Yesterday'.
p35, His parents ran a household steeped not just in love but in solid values,
p42, ... the scrub was so thick I couldn't even open my pocketknife.
p193, Darcy went to the Squatter's annual ball wearing pyjamas, announcing deadpan that this it was his 'breeding suit'.
p270, ' ... the white man forces you to think about so many things with just aren't that important, so much so that you forget what really is important!' ... 'Understanding gravity doesn't make an apple taste any nicer— it's still falls from the bloody tree ...'
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