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 - author and teller of the Prickle Farm stories - won the World Yarn Spinning Championship in 1992, he embarked on a personal crusade to collect and record as many contemporary Australian yarns as possible.
The Complete Book ofmAussie Yarns 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 Australian storytellers from all corners of the nation.
