Australian Legendary Tales

folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies

K. Langloh (Katie Langloh) Parker

• Publisher: Perlego
• Year: 2003
• eBook ISBN: 9700000003833
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Folklore & Mythology
• Index: Social Sciences

Australian Legendary Tales. Folklore. A story, A Fiction, an Adventure; an interesting book, here is the introduction to the book; Australia makes an appeal to the fancy which is all its own. When Cortes entered Mexico, in the most romantic moment of history, it was as if men had found their way to a new planet, so strange, so long hidden from Europe was all that they beheld. Still they found kings, nobles, peasants, palaces, temples, a great organised society, fauna and flora not so very different from what they had left behind in Spain. In Australia all was novel, and, while seeming fresh, was inestimably old. The vegetation differs from ours; the monotonous grey gum-trees did not resemble our varied forests, but were antique, melancholy, featureless, like their own continent of rare hills, infrequent streams and interminable deserts, concealing nothing within their wastes, yet promising a secret.......