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Old 09-24-2006, 10:39 AM   #1
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Downunder Authors

Any help in finding authors who write, wrote about the early days downunder? Someone like Wilbur Smith, who has written about Africa. I read some years ago and don't have a clue as to who wrote them.
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Old 09-24-2006, 11:48 AM   #2
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I read Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore in high school, about the founding of Australia with colonies of convicts. Nonfiction, but it reads like a novel. It was good enough to keep; I still have it on the bookshelf.
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Old 09-24-2006, 06:18 PM   #3
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The only Australian novel I can recall reading is Nevil Shute's "A Town Like Alice," which is realy about what happened to a group of English Women and Children who were taken prisoner by the Japanese. I saw the Masterpiece Theater teleplay and wanted to read the original story.
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Old 09-24-2006, 06:26 PM   #4
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Judy Nunn has written a few.... KAL for example.

Also, Bryce Courtenay
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Old 09-26-2006, 11:49 AM   #5
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Old 09-26-2006, 12:03 PM   #6
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There are a couple Aussie sci-fi authors I like, but sounds like that's not what you're looking for!
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Old 10-10-2006, 06:07 PM   #7
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I read Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore in high school, about the founding of Australia with colonies of convicts. Nonfiction, but it reads like a novel. It was good enough to keep; I still have it on the bookshelf.
Thanks. I picked it up at library today.
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Old 10-10-2006, 06:53 PM   #8
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You could try Leviathan by John Birmingham. It's mostly about Sydney and its origins right up to modern times. An interesting read in my opinion and as it is a referenced biographical account, it falls under the genre of creative non-fiction which is what gives it the flavour of the city more than anything else.
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Old 10-10-2006, 07:32 PM   #9
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'creative non-fiction' ....... that's gotta rank with a 'terminalogical in-exactitude'
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Old 10-11-2006, 11:33 PM   #10
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creative non-fiction is pretty much the genre for most biographical novels. The events in the story are fact, but the story is created by the authors imagination. Even Auto-biographies are creative non-fiction because when you write the story of your life, no one could possibly expect anyone to remember every conversation word for word etc. Hence, 'creative' non-fiction.

Trust me, it's an actual genre and very popular in this post modern era.
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Old 10-12-2006, 06:28 PM   #11
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mmmmm.....ok... I grudgingly accept the concept.... but, like TV 'drama-documetaries' I have reservations about not only the versimiltude of such creations, but also of the long-term affect upon an increasingly less-literate society... we are in grave danger of creating a whole new set of 'urban legends'...

'it must be right - it was in this book i red - i saw it in that docuentary i seed on the box ...'
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Old 10-12-2006, 06:44 PM   #12
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Well that has to do with teaching people critical and independant thought. There are sections of society which have always had difficulty with that concept.
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Old 10-12-2006, 07:09 PM   #13
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mmmm...... which concept? crictical & independent thought? or the teaching of it......
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Old 10-12-2006, 07:15 PM   #14
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Jay...I think the lack of teaching students this basic skill is a problem in the education system.
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Old 10-12-2006, 07:52 PM   #15
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Read my lips. Downunder authors!
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