The Australian LegendThis book traces the considerable influence of nomad pastoral workers, who provided the work force in the nineteenth-century outback, on the Australian outlook and way of life. |
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... Norfolk Island is considered a hero . There is abundant evidence that the following vignette from Marcus Clarke's Term of His Natural Life reflects faithfully the strength of the sentiment . Gabbet , the utterly debased cannibal ...
... Norfolk Island is considered a hero . There is abundant evidence that the following vignette from Marcus Clarke's Term of His Natural Life reflects faithfully the strength of the sentiment . Gabbet , the utterly debased cannibal ...
Page 55
... Norfolk island and Emu Plains and in those places of tyranny and condemnation many a blooming Irishman rather than subdue to the Saxon yoke were flogged to death and bravely died in servile chains . . . 12 The importance of ballad ...
... Norfolk island and Emu Plains and in those places of tyranny and condemnation many a blooming Irishman rather than subdue to the Saxon yoke were flogged to death and bravely died in servile chains . . . 12 The importance of ballad ...
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... Norfolk Island . Moved by this evidence of good feeling and by his youth - Webber was only twenty - five and ' in the full vigour of a robust manhood'— Therry offered to try to save him from the gallows if he would reveal particulars of ...
... Norfolk Island . Moved by this evidence of good feeling and by his youth - Webber was only twenty - five and ' in the full vigour of a robust manhood'— Therry offered to try to save him from the gallows if he would reveal particulars of ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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