Gentlemen At Gyang Gyang: A Tale Of The Jumbuck Fads On The Summer Runs
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: unclipped dj.
In the vast, sun-scorched pastoral lands of Australia, Gentlemen at Gyang Gyang chronicles the colourful world of the jumbuck runs — those sprawling sheep stations where fortune, pride, and the harsh rhythms of the land collide with the lives of men who consider themselves its masters. Written under the celebrated pseudonym Brent of Bin Bin — now widely attributed to the iconic Australian author Miles Franklin — this tale immerses the reader in the social intricacies, rivalries, and pastoral dramas of the summer runs, rendered with an ear finely tuned to the cadences of Australian rural life. Franklin's prose, sharp with wit and alive with an unsentimental love of the land, presents a richly textured portrait of a society caught between colonial heritage and a fiercely independent national identity. The Brent of Bin Bin series, of which this volume is a part, stands as one of the more intriguing literary projects of twentieth-century Australian fiction — a decades-long exercise in authorial concealment that only deepened the mythology surrounding the work. Who, ultimately, are the true gentlemen of Gyang Gyang — and what does their world reveal about the Australia that shaped them?
Author: Brent Of Bin Bin (Miles Franklin)
Format: Hardback
Published: 1956, Angus and Robertson
Genre: Australian history
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: unclipped dj.
In the vast, sun-scorched pastoral lands of Australia, Gentlemen at Gyang Gyang chronicles the colourful world of the jumbuck runs — those sprawling sheep stations where fortune, pride, and the harsh rhythms of the land collide with the lives of men who consider themselves its masters. Written under the celebrated pseudonym Brent of Bin Bin — now widely attributed to the iconic Australian author Miles Franklin — this tale immerses the reader in the social intricacies, rivalries, and pastoral dramas of the summer runs, rendered with an ear finely tuned to the cadences of Australian rural life. Franklin's prose, sharp with wit and alive with an unsentimental love of the land, presents a richly textured portrait of a society caught between colonial heritage and a fiercely independent national identity. The Brent of Bin Bin series, of which this volume is a part, stands as one of the more intriguing literary projects of twentieth-century Australian fiction — a decades-long exercise in authorial concealment that only deepened the mythology surrounding the work. Who, ultimately, are the true gentlemen of Gyang Gyang — and what does their world reveal about the Australia that shaped them?