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Boots and All

by Catherine Watson · 1984

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"These are the lives and stories of 24 Victorian farmers - settlers, squatters, pioneers, cockies, farmworkers, shearers, rabbiters, fencers, horse-breakers, drovers, harvesters - told in their own words".

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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short · 108 pages

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