>I'm not sure about the image we seem to have OS.....a bunch of neanderthal, macho, chauvinist, hardcore, 'no fear' bozos. Hmmmm > I suppose that the most common reference we may have to OZ would be "The Thorn Birds" miniseries, and the book of course. I'm also an avid mystery reader and one of my favorite sleuths is Napoleon Bonaparte, a Police Inspector from Sydney who is half aborigine. The novels were written by Arthur W. Upfield and some of the milieu he describes resonates with our US sense of the frontier....... Joe P. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Nov 25 1999 - 16:27:24 PST
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