A History of Australia, Volume 4This 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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... bush people were not put off by the cruel tricks that nature had played on him . Men , they believed , were maddened , coarsen- ed and brutalized by harsh treatment . As a prisoner of the Crown , Morgan had been flogged unmercifully ...
... bush people were not put off by the cruel tricks that nature had played on him . Men , they believed , were maddened , coarsen- ed and brutalized by harsh treatment . As a prisoner of the Crown , Morgan had been flogged unmercifully ...
Page 341
... bush of Australia . The iron rail heralded , he prophesied , the end of ' The Roaring Days ' : The brooding bush , awakened , Was stirred in wild unrest , And all the year a human stream Went pouring to the West . The rough bush roads ...
... bush of Australia . The iron rail heralded , he prophesied , the end of ' The Roaring Days ' : The brooding bush , awakened , Was stirred in wild unrest , And all the year a human stream Went pouring to the West . The rough bush roads ...
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... bush with the tradition of whisky as the dew of Heaven , and the thighs of a woman as something which passed all understanding . Side by side with ' lovely Jessie ' was that other hope that there was someone , somewhere who cared about ...
... bush with the tradition of whisky as the dew of Heaven , and the thighs of a woman as something which passed all understanding . Side by side with ' lovely Jessie ' was that other hope that there was someone , somewhere who cared about ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED 533 | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
Copyright | |
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