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... whole fabric would totter and fall . Thus , stringy - bark and green - hide early became a symbol of the outback , or ' Australian ' , capacity for improvisation . In the 1820's ' inland settlers ' were already known by the sobriquet of ...
... whole fabric would totter and fall . Thus , stringy - bark and green - hide early became a symbol of the outback , or ' Australian ' , capacity for improvisation . In the 1820's ' inland settlers ' were already known by the sobriquet of ...
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... whole surprisingly gentlemanly ruffians . Fifty years before Boxall wrote , Marjoribanks considered the peculiar institution ' of bushranging with a Radical Whiggish eye , comparatively un- clouded by either romantic sentimentality or ...
... whole surprisingly gentlemanly ruffians . Fifty years before Boxall wrote , Marjoribanks considered the peculiar institution ' of bushranging with a Radical Whiggish eye , comparatively un- clouded by either romantic sentimentality or ...
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... whole system of " officers " . Interestingly , some might say oddly , it is Lambert whose characters are prepared to admit that there are some good officers and to take these to their hearts accordingly , though on their own terms.27 ...
... whole system of " officers " . Interestingly , some might say oddly , it is Lambert whose characters are prepared to admit that there are some good officers and to take these to their hearts accordingly , though on their own terms.27 ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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