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 93
... sheep were suffocated in the hold of his ship or died of thirst . He himself was so distressed by the heat on first landing at Western Port that he developed violent palpitations and had to lie down to recover . Wedge only lost fifty ...
... sheep were suffocated in the hold of his ship or died of thirst . He himself was so distressed by the heat on first landing at Western Port that he developed violent palpitations and had to lie down to recover . Wedge only lost fifty ...
Page 100
... sheep were not easy to obtain . He always saw himself as separate from and superior to the mass of mankind . In his world , as he put it , ' both the bipeds and the quadrupeds ' were ' continually going wrong ' , and it was his ' duty ...
... sheep were not easy to obtain . He always saw himself as separate from and superior to the mass of mankind . In his world , as he put it , ' both the bipeds and the quadrupeds ' were ' continually going wrong ' , and it was his ' duty ...
Page 255
... sheep , the grasses and the labour of convicts and ex - convicts to create the wealth that would enable their families to wear fine clothes , and adopt airs of superiority , leaving the missionaries to raise the aborigines from ...
... sheep , the grasses and the labour of convicts and ex - convicts to create the wealth that would enable their families to wear fine clothes , and adopt airs of superiority , leaving the missionaries to raise the aborigines from ...
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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