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 172
Others took everything in their stride , put up with the bashings from their menfolk
, collected them when they were lying dead drunk outside some rum ... In 1873
Niels Hertzberg Larsen took up a forty - acre selection on Pipeclay near Gulgong
.
Others took everything in their stride , put up with the bashings from their menfolk
, collected them when they were lying dead drunk outside some rum ... In 1873
Niels Hertzberg Larsen took up a forty - acre selection on Pipeclay near Gulgong
.
Page 187
He always took with him under the seat on these tours a bottle of whisky and a
bottle of water and told his visitors that one of the worst mistakes a man could
make in life was to mix those two fluids in the one glass . At Colac Robertson ...
He always took with him under the seat on these tours a bottle of whisky and a
bottle of water and told his visitors that one of the worst mistakes a man could
make in life was to mix those two fluids in the one glass . At Colac Robertson ...
Page 265
All his life he had steeped himself in the literature of elitists . At a time when men
on the popular side in politics took delight in the poetry of Burns or were
discovering the work of Walt Whitman , Berry read the poetry of Alexander Pope ...
All his life he had steeped himself in the literature of elitists . At a time when men
on the popular side in politics took delight in the poetry of Burns or were
discovering the work of Walt Whitman , Berry read the poetry of Alexander Pope ...
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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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