The Sun Is Up: Memories Of Country Schooldays
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.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Long before the school bell rang across the dusty paddocks of rural Australia, life in the country classroom was already a world unto itself — and Cliff Green's The Sun Is Up: Memories of Country Schooldays captures that vanishing world with warmth, precision, and an irresistible sense of nostalgia. Drawing on the rhythms and rituals of Australian country schooling, Green chronicles the daily lives of children and teachers in a landscape where the seasons dictated the timetable and community was everything. The book presents an intimate portrait of a way of life that shaped generations of Australians, rendered in vivid, affectionate detail that brings dusty schoolrooms and sunlit playgrounds back to life. Illustrated by Geoff La Gerche, whose evocative line drawings complement Green's prose with a quiet, rustic elegance, The Sun Is Up stands as a testament to the enduring power of memory and place in Australian cultural identity. Green — best known for his celebrated screenplay work, including the iconic Picnic at Hanging Rock — brings a storyteller's instinct to this memoir, weaving the personal and the universal into a tapestry of rural childhood. The result is a work that resonates far beyond its subject matter, raising a quietly profound question: what is lost when a whole way of learning — and living — disappears?
Author: Cliff Green
Format: Paperback
Published: 1978, Drummond
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Long before the school bell rang across the dusty paddocks of rural Australia, life in the country classroom was already a world unto itself — and Cliff Green's The Sun Is Up: Memories of Country Schooldays captures that vanishing world with warmth, precision, and an irresistible sense of nostalgia. Drawing on the rhythms and rituals of Australian country schooling, Green chronicles the daily lives of children and teachers in a landscape where the seasons dictated the timetable and community was everything. The book presents an intimate portrait of a way of life that shaped generations of Australians, rendered in vivid, affectionate detail that brings dusty schoolrooms and sunlit playgrounds back to life. Illustrated by Geoff La Gerche, whose evocative line drawings complement Green's prose with a quiet, rustic elegance, The Sun Is Up stands as a testament to the enduring power of memory and place in Australian cultural identity. Green — best known for his celebrated screenplay work, including the iconic Picnic at Hanging Rock — brings a storyteller's instinct to this memoir, weaving the personal and the universal into a tapestry of rural childhood. The result is a work that resonates far beyond its subject matter, raising a quietly profound question: what is lost when a whole way of learning — and living — disappears?