Dimensions
135 x 213 x 39mm
A compilation of the three titles:
- 'Yarns! From All Round Australia'
- 'Tell Us Anotheree! More Yarns From All Round Australia'
- 'Yarns! Didja Hear About . . .'
Over time humankind has developed three ways of recording its existence. History, folklore . . . and yarns. History, hopefully, is a record of what really did happen. Folklore is a record of what people believe happened. Yarns don't really care what really happened - they're a way of keeping it all interesting.
When Mike Hayes won the World Yarn Spinning Championship in 1991, he embarked on a personal crusade to collect and record as many contemporary Australian yarns as possible.
This book celebrates Mike's crusade. It is an opportunity to absorb the results of his painstaking research, incisive analysis and outrageous lying in one volume. It's also a chance to see that those same dubious skills have been fine tuned by generations of other Australians storytellers from all corners of the nation.
