A History of Australia: The beginning of an Australian civilization, 1824-1851The late Manning Clark aims to bring to attention the foibles and strengths in every person, traits forced to the fore in the hardship and trauma that occured during the establishment and develpment of white settlement in Australia. Clark sets out to use the tragedies and successes of national heroes such as explorerers and generals, and those of the average person such as soldiers at Gallipoli and farmer's wives, to create a memorable tableau. |
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Page 369
... Boyd for five rupees a month , but their overseers reported that they were quite unfit for work in the bush . The Sydney Morning Herald commented in April 1847 that the mere fact of graziers having recourse to such experiments ought to ...
... Boyd for five rupees a month , but their overseers reported that they were quite unfit for work in the bush . The Sydney Morning Herald commented in April 1847 that the mere fact of graziers having recourse to such experiments ought to ...
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... Boyd was held up to ridicule in some doggerel verse in Bell's Life in Sydney : Cannibalania Benny Boyd when he found out that shepherds were scarce , Looked anxiously round for to see From whence he could get them , but - none could be ...
... Boyd was held up to ridicule in some doggerel verse in Bell's Life in Sydney : Cannibalania Benny Boyd when he found out that shepherds were scarce , Looked anxiously round for to see From whence he could get them , but - none could be ...
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... Boyd also paid his price for all his folie de la grandeur humaine . In March of 1848 Bell's Life in Sydney stated that Bibbenluke , Boyd's great station in the Monaro , was nothing but a barren waste with volumes of dust whirling in ...
... Boyd also paid his price for all his folie de la grandeur humaine . In March of 1848 Bell's Life in Sydney stated that Bibbenluke , Boyd's great station in the Monaro , was nothing but a barren waste with volumes of dust whirling in ...
Contents
ANOTHER PROVINCE FOR BRITAINS GENTRY | 17 |
HIGH NOON FOR MORAL IMPROVERS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA | 73 |
OVERSTRAITERS OVERLANDERS AND OTHERS DESCEND | 84 |
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