A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888This fourth volume continues the story [of the history of Australia] from the discovery of gold in February 1851 to the centenary of the coming of European civilization to Australia on January 26 1888. Its vital theme concerns the debate in Australian about the life of man without God; and the impending breakdown of bourgeois society, succeeded by an age of ruins. |
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Page 168
There were burly fustian - clad farmers , who were looking for a chance to buy
more land at bargain rates . There were also smart young men sent down from
Collins Street in Melbourne with orders to buy up land so that their employers
might ...
There were burly fustian - clad farmers , who were looking for a chance to buy
more land at bargain rates . There were also smart young men sent down from
Collins Street in Melbourne with orders to buy up land so that their employers
might ...
Page 190
There in 1863 west of Bowen while searching for land he met the explorer
Landsborough who told him about the rich country he had stumbled on out west
when looking for Burke and Wills . Landsborough told him of a site that would
answer ...
There in 1863 west of Bowen while searching for land he met the explorer
Landsborough who told him about the rich country he had stumbled on out west
when looking for Burke and Wills . Landsborough told him of a site that would
answer ...
Page 345
Another man sang : A butcher , and a baker , and a quiet - looking Quaker , All a -
courting pretty Jessie at the Railway bar ... undying pain in those years when it
looked as though blood might stain the wattle again in Australia , as it had
stained ...
Another man sang : A butcher , and a baker , and a quiet - looking Quaker , All a -
courting pretty Jessie at the Railway bar ... undying pain in those years when it
looked as though blood might stain the wattle again in Australia , as it had
stained ...
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PROLOGUE | 1 |
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
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| Title | A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888 Volume 4 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 4 of Dummy reekstitel |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1962 |
| ISBN | 0522841473, 9780522841473 |
| Length | 427 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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