A History of Australia: The beginning of an Australian civilization, 1824-1851The late Manning Clark aims to bring to attention the foibles and strengths in every person, traits forced to the fore in the hardship and trauma that occured during the establishment and develpment of white settlement in Australia. Clark sets out to use the tragedies and successes of national heroes such as explorerers and generals, and those of the average person such as soldiers at Gallipoli and farmer's wives, to create a memorable tableau. |
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... letters on a Sunday . Thanks to her garden , her piano , and the natural beauty she uncovered in what to others was a wilderness , she likened her life to the Garden of Eden before Eve was expelled from Paradise . She discovered that ...
... letters on a Sunday . Thanks to her garden , her piano , and the natural beauty she uncovered in what to others was a wilderness , she likened her life to the Garden of Eden before Eve was expelled from Paradise . She discovered that ...
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... letters by an anonymous writer who claimed to have the answer to the problem . On 2 September the letters were given that sub - heading by which they were to be known to posterity , for on that day they were called ' A Letter from ...
... letters by an anonymous writer who claimed to have the answer to the problem . On 2 September the letters were given that sub - heading by which they were to be known to posterity , for on that day they were called ' A Letter from ...
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Charles Manning Hope Clark. At the end of 1829 the twelve letters were published as a pamphlet , A Letter from Sydney , the Principal Town of Australia , edited by Robert Gouger , who was already known as the author of Sketch of a ...
Charles Manning Hope Clark. At the end of 1829 the twelve letters were published as a pamphlet , A Letter from Sydney , the Principal Town of Australia , edited by Robert Gouger , who was already known as the author of Sketch of a ...
Contents
ANOTHER PROVINCE FOR BRITAINS GENTRY | 17 |
A BRITISH PROVINCE WITH A LAUDABLE PURPOSE | 42 |
HIGH NOON FOR MORAL IMPROVERS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA | 73 |
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