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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... 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 ...
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... 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 Mont- gomery went on reading those words about charity and forgiveness . From that day flowers were often laid on the grave over which his friends and sympathizers erected a stone on which were cut the simple words ' In Memory of ...
... Father Mont- gomery went on reading those words about charity and forgiveness . From that day flowers were often laid on the grave over which his friends and sympathizers erected a stone on which were cut the simple words ' In Memory of ...
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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