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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... Charles Mann in Adelaide , were just as sure of the white man's right to the ... Harpur wrote ' An Aboriginal Mother's Lament ' about the one black woman at ... Charles Sturt had moistened with pleasure on seeing such a beautiful country ...
... Charles Mann in Adelaide , were just as sure of the white man's right to the ... Harpur wrote ' An Aboriginal Mother's Lament ' about the one black woman at ... Charles Sturt had moistened with pleasure on seeing such a beautiful country ...
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... Charles Harpur published in the Australasian Chronicle his lyric ' To the Lyre of Australia ' in which the glory of his native land was his theme . That summer he put down on paper his hopes for the future of man in " This Southern Land ...
... Charles Harpur published in the Australasian Chronicle his lyric ' To the Lyre of Australia ' in which the glory of his native land was his theme . That summer he put down on paper his hopes for the future of man in " This Southern Land ...
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... Charles Harpur in Australia in his own more anaemic discussion of the same agony . In his poem " To the Spirit of Poesie ' , written in 1847 , he put into words the grief of a man deprived of the hope of meeting beyond the grave and of ...
... Charles Harpur in Australia in his own more anaemic discussion of the same agony . In his poem " To the Spirit of Poesie ' , written in 1847 , he put into words the grief of a man deprived of the hope of meeting beyond the grave and of ...
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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