A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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Page 158
... father : Cooper's Creek , June 27,1861 . My Dear Father , -These are probably the last lines you will ever get from me . We are on the point of starvation , not so much from the want of food , but from the want of nutriment in what we ...
... father : Cooper's Creek , June 27,1861 . My Dear Father , -These are probably the last lines you will ever get from me . We are on the point of starvation , not so much from the want of food , but from the want of nutriment in what we ...
Page 173
... father had rebelled against on that dark Lutheran coast of Norway . In 1883 the family broke up ; the father went to the Blue Moun- tains , the mother down to Sydney to join the tiny band of puritan radicals in Australia . There in ...
... father had rebelled against on that dark Lutheran coast of Norway . In 1883 the family broke up ; the father went to the Blue Moun- tains , the mother down to Sydney to join the tiny band of puritan radicals in Australia . There in ...
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... Father . Yet they had much in common . Both school systems en- forced a strict segregation of the sexes ; both urged their pupils to mortify the flesh ; both taught a morality pleasing to the ears of the men who held the purse - strings ...
... Father . Yet they had much in common . Both school systems en- forced a strict segregation of the sexes ; both urged their pupils to mortify the flesh ; both taught a morality pleasing to the ears of the men who held the purse - strings ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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