Waltzing the Magpies: A Year in Australia

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rwaltzing the :Magpies ~ Also by Sam Pickering BOOKS OF ESSAYS A Continuing Education The Right Distance May Days Still Life Let It Ride Trespassing Walkabout Year The Blue Caterpillar Living to Prowl Deprived of Unhappiness A Little Fling The Last Book The Best ofPickering LITERARY STUDIES The Moral Tradition in English Fiction, 1785-1850 John Locke and Children's Books in Eighteenth-Celltury England Moral Instruction and Fiction for Children, 1749-1820 SAM PICKERING Waltzing the Magpies A Year in Australia UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS ANN ARBOR ISBN13 978-0-472-11377-4 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN13 978-0-472-02443-8 (electronic) Copyright (<) by Sam Pickering 2004 All rights reserved Published in the United States ofAmerica by The University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America @ Printed 011 acid-free paper 2007 2006 2005 2004 4 3 2 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher. A elP catalog record for this book is available from the British LilJrllry. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pickering, Samuel F., 1941Waltzing the magpies: a year in Australia / Sam Pickering. p. cm. ISBN 0-472-11377-1 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Pickering, Samuel 1'., 1941-Travel-Australia. 2. English teachers-Australia-Biography. 3. AustraliaSocial life and customs. 4. Americans-AustraliaBiography . 1. Title. PE64.P53 A3 2004 2003015702 ...