The Bunyip, Andrew Lang
The Bunyip, Andrew Lang
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The Bunyip

Author: Andrew Lang

Narrator: Anastasia Bertollo

Unabridged: 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/28/2015


Synopsis

The story tells about how a group of young hunters from one tribe went to find food. The main character - one of the young men promised his beloved girl that he will bring to her family so much meat that it will be enough for three days. When they reached the lake, the boys began to fish. All of them used worms as a bait, but the main hero had a piece of raw meat. He was waiting a long time, but finally someone pulled the trigger strongly. From the water appeared a “creature that was neither a calf nor a seal, but something of both, with a long, broad tail” and “there was not a man amongst them who did not know what it was-- the cub of the awful Bunyip!” But it was not alone - horrified hunters realized that his mother noticed them. They whispered to the catcher to release the creature, but he refused. You can learn how the Bunyip took revenge on the hunter and his tribe if you read this exotic Australian fairy tale!

About Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang (1844–1912), Scottish man of letters educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St. Andrews, and Balliol College, Oxford, became a prolific and versatile London journalist. He took a leading part in the controversy with Max Müller and his school about the interpretation of mythology and folk tales. He published several volumes of verse and several solid contributions to the study of the philosophy and religion of primitive man. He also wrote the four-volume History of Scotland, A History of English Literature, and many fairy-tale collections, as well as works on Homer, Joan of Arc, Scott, Lockhart, Mary Stuart, John Knox, Prince Charlie, Tennyson, and others.


Reviews

Goodreads review by John of Canada on May 03, 2023

This was a pleasant surprise. I was wandering around the library and spotted this. Frightening creature, which along with deadly snakes, 30 foot crocodiles, and a special guest appearance by the Tasmanian devil has prompted me to cancel my lifelong dream of visiting Australia.......more