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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... nature provided the grasses and the soil for a concentration of settlement , and a community of farmers in a countryside not unlike the country districts around Cork in Ireland or Dorchester in England . Agriculture flourished ; the ...
... nature provided the grasses and the soil for a concentration of settlement , and a community of farmers in a countryside not unlike the country districts around Cork in Ireland or Dorchester in England . Agriculture flourished ; the ...
Page 301
... Nature had endowed him with great intelligence but had given him the weak eyes of an albino and such a vulner- able look on the face that men averted their gaze when he approached . Neither Gipps nor anyone else who rejoiced that ...
... Nature had endowed him with great intelligence but had given him the weak eyes of an albino and such a vulner- able look on the face that men averted their gaze when he approached . Neither Gipps nor anyone else who rejoiced that ...
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... Nature and the laws of political economy had conspired to make New South Wales a sheep - walk in which wool was grown most profitably by a few men . Those ' ignorant clerks ' in London wanted to act both against nature and the laws of ...
... Nature and the laws of political economy had conspired to make New South Wales a sheep - walk in which wool was grown most profitably by a few men . Those ' ignorant clerks ' in London wanted to act both against nature and the laws of ...
Contents
ANOTHER PROVINCE FOR BRITAINS GENTRY | 19 |
A BRITISH PROVINCE WITH A LAUDABLE PURPOSE | 42 |
HIGH NOON FOR MORAL IMPROVERS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA | 73 |
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