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... Harris ' , in one of his most penetrating passages , pointed to the environmental pressures towards such behaviour . After describing how , to succour him , his mate had walked ' full forty miles ' in twenty - four hours , carrying a ...
... Harris ' , in one of his most penetrating passages , pointed to the environmental pressures towards such behaviour . After describing how , to succour him , his mate had walked ' full forty miles ' in twenty - four hours , carrying a ...
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... Harris ' , Guide to Port Stephens , etc. , London 1849 , p . 75. ' Harris''s statement that ' every door is without bolt or lock ' should be taken literally . See John Henderson , op . cit . , vol . 1 , p . 204 . 25 F. Lancelott , op ...
... Harris ' , Guide to Port Stephens , etc. , London 1849 , p . 75. ' Harris''s statement that ' every door is without bolt or lock ' should be taken literally . See John Henderson , op . cit . , vol . 1 , p . 204 . 25 F. Lancelott , op ...
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... Harris's Emigrant Family . Judged as a work of art it is perhaps inferior to Henry Kingsley's more purely literary Geoffry Hamlyn , but as a social document it is very much more interesting . In his Letter from Sydney , Wakefield had ...
... Harris's Emigrant Family . Judged as a work of art it is perhaps inferior to Henry Kingsley's more purely literary Geoffry Hamlyn , but as a social document it is very much more interesting . In his Letter from Sydney , Wakefield had ...
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THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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