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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... noble savage ' whose life span extended ' from about 1730 to 1830 ' 22 As a result of closer acquaintance and the reports of missionaries , the noble savage had become rather ignoble by the 1820's . By 1832 he had fallen on such evil ...
... noble savage ' whose life span extended ' from about 1730 to 1830 ' 22 As a result of closer acquaintance and the reports of missionaries , the noble savage had become rather ignoble by the 1820's . By 1832 he had fallen on such evil ...
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... noble savages , strikes the same note : ' Indeed he appears to be a perfectly rational and intelligent man , with an understanding far superior to the common race of us cultivated gentry.'26 Omai was an atypical specimen of his genus in ...
... noble savages , strikes the same note : ' Indeed he appears to be a perfectly rational and intelligent man , with an understanding far superior to the common race of us cultivated gentry.'26 Omai was an atypical specimen of his genus in ...
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... noble frontiersman in Australia , he was a fervent admirer of Kipling , the apostle of the imperial frontiersman . He was a friend and admirer , not only of the democratic ( with a small ' d ' ) Woodrow Wilson , but also of Theodore ...
... noble frontiersman in Australia , he was a fervent admirer of Kipling , the apostle of the imperial frontiersman . He was a friend and admirer , not only of the democratic ( with a small ' d ' ) Woodrow Wilson , but also of Theodore ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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