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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As the two ships were being tossed and buffeted by the huge swell from the south
in that vast stretch of sea between ... but Stirling , carried away by the excitement
of the moment , ignored the warning and drove the ship straight onto the rocks .
As the two ships were being tossed and buffeted by the huge swell from the south
in that vast stretch of sea between ... but Stirling , carried away by the excitement
of the moment , ignored the warning and drove the ship straight onto the rocks .
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They turned over in their minds the possibility of loans and the possibility of
including other categories than females between the ages of eighteen and thirty ,
while they filled up the first ship with those women whom Goderich sometimes ...
They turned over in their minds the possibility of loans and the possibility of
including other categories than females between the ages of eighteen and thirty ,
while they filled up the first ship with those women whom Goderich sometimes ...
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On the voyage fifty - six children died of measles and whooping cough , fifty
migrants and seamen died of typhus , and eighty more lay dying when the ship
finally reached Sydney . On the Layton which sailed from Bristol on 27
September ...
On the voyage fifty - six children died of measles and whooping cough , fifty
migrants and seamen died of typhus , and eighty more lay dying when the ship
finally reached Sydney . On the Layton which sailed from Bristol on 27
September ...
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Contents
ANOTHER PROVINCE FOR BRITAINS GENTRY | 17 |
A BRITISH PROVINCE WITH A LAUDABLE PURPOSE | 42 |
HIGH NOON FOR MORAL IMPROVERS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA | 62 |
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| Title | A History of Australia: The beginning of an Australian civilization, 1824-1851 Volume 3 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 |
| Authors | Charles Manning Hope Clark, Manning Clark |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1963 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 052284054X, 9780522840544 |
| Length | 491 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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