Vignettes of Australian bush life.

This novel tells the story of Sid and his sister, Keira Warri. The novel follows the career of Sid Warri. Sid sets out at 16 to win a fortune in the region of wide spaces, and to search for his father, who is the lost squatter. His father in the family's rosier days owned the big run where Sid goes to seek employment. Will Sid find his father?

This is a mystery novel that revolves around the haunted glen. Ellis Rhea, whose last seven years had been spent behind prison bars, is now a guest of Mr. Hoey Borrn's home. Mrs. Borrn is not in favor of his visit. She looks at him with something of suspicion, even distrust, in her dark eyes. Mr. Hoey tells Rhea about the haunted glen at Murrawang, and why it's named so. Rory, Mr. Hoey's son, and Rhea decide to investigate the haunted glen. Will they unravel the story of the ghost that surrounds the glen?

Chips And Splinters is a collection of poems written by Edward S. Sorenson. Excerpt: "From tail to ears he rode her hard, From ears to tail again, A mile beyond the cattle yard, And back across the plain; Now high upon the pommel bumped, Now hanging at the side, Anon behind the saddle dumped, With arms and legs flung wide."

'The Squatter's Ward' is an adventure novel written by Edward S. Sorenson. The story unfolds on a hot day in mid-December, so hot that the perspiration ran in little streams down the face of Richard Merton—familiarly known among his station hands as "Old Dick"—as he sat in a canvas-back chair in the coolest corner of the verandah. He was a middle-aged man of medium height; but his corpulent form made his legs appear exceedingly short. His thin, short-clipped beard was well sprinkled with gray, though he was yet a good many shakes of the leg under forty. His eyes were deep set, bright, piercing eyes, overshadowed by bushy brows that lent a sinister expression to his face.

This novel tells the story of Long Bill and Amelia Jane. Amelia Jane is a spinster who is yet to be married. She is one of the neglected females and she didn't know why. Dances were seldom held in Dumboon township, but when they do, it was an opportunity for matchmaking. Amelia is drawing perilously near the border of old maidenhood and anxious to change her condition. Will Long Bill ask her to marry him?

From the time of the continent's formation tens of millions of years ago as the Godwana twin of Antarctica, Australia has been dominated by fire much as its sister has been by ice. Now Stephen Pyne, one of our foremost environmental historians, proposes a major reinterpretation of the Australian experience by using fire and Australia to explain one another. He narrates the story of how fire came to Australia and interacted with the Australian biota and its human inhabitants, while at the same time he relates the planetary saga of fire as it has been played out on this special island continent. Much as the Aborigines exploited fire to remake their environment into something more usable, so Stephen Pyne exploits fire to transform the landscape of history into something more accessible, to use its transmuting power to extract new meaning out of familiar events. Pyne traces the impact of fire, from its initial influence on the evolving vegetation of the new continent, through its use by the Aborigines and the subsequent European settlers, to the holocaust of February 1983 known as Ash Wednesday, and he shows us that the dynamic nature of fire has made it a most powerful environmental determinant in Australia, shaping both its social and natural histories. In his critically acclaimed study of Antarctica, The Ice, Pyne explored the myriad dimensions of the cold continent; now Burning Bush offers us an equally absorbing examination of a continent informed by fire.