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Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 Doorways : A Year of the Cumberdeen Diaries
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Notes

  • Daily life on the author's farm, 'Cumberdeen', in the Namoi River region, New South Wales.

Contents

* Contents derived from the North Ryde, Ryde - Gladesville - Hunters Hill area, Northwest Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,:Angus and Robertson , 1989 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
There are Equally Lovable Places to Live, But None Better, Eric Rolls , single work prose (p. 5-8)
Townsmen have No Idea of the Authority of the Weather. It Overseas Our Lives..., Eric Rolls , single work prose (p. 9-11)
We Cut...Anything that Will Bend the Flames and Vary the Pattern, Eric Rolls , single work prose (p. 12-15)
...So Different a Land it was More a New Planet Than a New Continent, Eric Rolls , single work prose (p. 16-19)
But Always our Visitors Hope to See Animals, Eric Rolls , single work prose (p. 21-23)
All That is Left of the House are the Ironbark Blocks it Stood On, Eric Rolls , single work prose (p. 24-26)
The Abattoir is Especially Grim in the Early Morning, Eric Rolls , single work prose (p. 27-29)
It is Superior Stock, the Product of Our Paddocks. We Grew It, Eric Rolls , single work prose (p. 30-32)
Flocks of these Birds Dance in Graceful Patterns..., Eric Rolls , single work prose (p. 33-36)
They Like to Have their Saws Screaming by First Light, Eric Rolls , single work prose (p. 37-40)
One Savours Sweet Air and a Memory of Rich Wine, Eric Rolls , single work prose (p. 41-44)
Letting the Grass Grow Solves the Problem..., Eric Rolls , single work prose (p. 45-47)
Their Job is Much More Exacting than That of a Doctor, Eric Rolls , single work prose (p. 51-54)
...We Head Roughly North to Find Unknown Wonders, Eric Rolls , single work prose (p. 55-56)
The Aborigines, too, Treated the Trees with Special Care, Eric Rolls , single work prose (p. 57-58)
You're Booming in Here Right Now. You're Pushing Just on Seven, Eric Rolls , single work prose (p. 59-61)
We Breakfasted on Pawpaw and Pineapple Ripened Deliciously on the Plants, Eric Rolls , single work prose (p. 63-64)
But Mostly the City is Pleasantly New and Pleasantly Old..., Eric Rolls , single work prose (p. 65-68)
In Many Places the Canopy Closed Overhead and We Drove Through Green Tunnels, Eric Rolls , single work prose (p. 69-71)
We Pushed our Four-Wheel Drives to the Limit, then We Got Out and Pushed Ourselves, Eric Rolls , single work prose (p. 72-75)
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Works about this Work

The Poetics and Practicalities of Writing Tom Griffiths , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Writing Histories: Imagination and Narration 2009; 'Inga Clendinnen, an outstanding and imaginative historian, recently confessed that when she asked a class of new history graduates which historians they read for pleasure, they laughed! ‘I knew why they laughed’, she explained sadly. It’s because so many scholars compromise communication with pompous posturing; they are too busy staking out intellectual territory and warding others off it; they are too busy digging in their fields isolating ‘stone-hard, stone-cold facts’ to bother looking up or around; they are so furiously in pursuit of ‘objectivity’ that they delete themselves from their scripts and employ a weird, passionless prose. Clendinnen says that she enjoys reading great historians, like E.P. Thompson, for the same reason she enjoys reading great novelists—they offer an entrée into richly imagined worlds. But, she confesses, there is a difference. For her, when reading non-fiction, the bliss is tempered and intensified by a critical alertness and an undertow of moral implication not present in what she calls ‘the limpid realms of fiction’.' (Introduction)
The North, Seen Through Focused Eyes Hannelore Middlebrook , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Newcastle Herald , 23 December 1989; (p. 10)
— Review of Doorways : A Year of the Cumberdeen Diaries Eric Rolls , 1989 selected work prose
The North, Seen Through Focused Eyes Hannelore Middlebrook , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Newcastle Herald , 23 December 1989; (p. 10)
— Review of Doorways : A Year of the Cumberdeen Diaries Eric Rolls , 1989 selected work prose
The Poetics and Practicalities of Writing Tom Griffiths , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Writing Histories: Imagination and Narration 2009; 'Inga Clendinnen, an outstanding and imaginative historian, recently confessed that when she asked a class of new history graduates which historians they read for pleasure, they laughed! ‘I knew why they laughed’, she explained sadly. It’s because so many scholars compromise communication with pompous posturing; they are too busy staking out intellectual territory and warding others off it; they are too busy digging in their fields isolating ‘stone-hard, stone-cold facts’ to bother looking up or around; they are so furiously in pursuit of ‘objectivity’ that they delete themselves from their scripts and employ a weird, passionless prose. Clendinnen says that she enjoys reading great historians, like E.P. Thompson, for the same reason she enjoys reading great novelists—they offer an entrée into richly imagined worlds. But, she confesses, there is a difference. For her, when reading non-fiction, the bliss is tempered and intensified by a critical alertness and an undertow of moral implication not present in what she calls ‘the limpid realms of fiction’.' (Introduction)
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Subjects:
  • Namoi River, Far North NSW, New South Wales,
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