Christmas, 1901 extract   diary  
Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 Christmas, 1901
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3 diary entries about Christmas spent in Borroloola.

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  • From p348-351 of Gillen's Diary.

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    y separately published work icon North of the Ten Commandments : A Collection of Northern Territory Literature David Headon (editor), Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1991 Z54431 1991 anthology poetry short story prose correspondence extract

    'The writers and story-tellers included in this collection relate an important, even epic tale. They tell a story which in 1988 (white Australia's bicentennial year) rarely received attention because, while it tells of courage and love, it also focuses on killing and conquest, eccentricity and madness, and a land as hostile and murderous as it could be gentle and caring...' (Source: Preface)

         Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1991     pg. 238-239
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y separately published work icon Gillen's Diary : The Camp Jottings of F. J. Gillen on the Spencer and Gillen Expedition Across Australia, 1901-1902 F. J. Gillen , Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia , 1968 Z1399420 1968 single work diary
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  • Borroloola, McArthur River area, Gulf - Barkly Tablelands area, Central Northern Territory, Northern Territory,
  • 1901
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