A History of Australia: New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 1822-1838The 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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... streets were rendered unsafe to property by swarms of pickpockets , and unsafe to virtue by unceasing offers from prostitutes . By day and night the unwary were exposed to the begging of half - starved , ill - clad savages from Ireland ...
... streets were rendered unsafe to property by swarms of pickpockets , and unsafe to virtue by unceasing offers from prostitutes . By day and night the unwary were exposed to the begging of half - starved , ill - clad savages from Ireland ...
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... streets without having her modesty shocked by the victims of colonial depravity . Lewd words and lewd gestures greeted any lady who risked a stroll past the drunk or the sober in the streets of Sydney . In Hobart Town language and ...
... streets without having her modesty shocked by the victims of colonial depravity . Lewd words and lewd gestures greeted any lady who risked a stroll past the drunk or the sober in the streets of Sydney . In Hobart Town language and ...
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... streets of Sydney for slandering his father in The Felonry of New South Wales , after which he was shunned as the ... Street of a very satisfactory character , James Macarthur began to write as a man who was about to enter into his ...
... streets of Sydney for slandering his father in The Felonry of New South Wales , after which he was shunned as the ... Street of a very satisfactory character , James Macarthur began to write as a man who was about to enter into his ...
Contents
THE SETTING IN NEW SOUTH WALES | 17 |
THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE SON | 41 |
THE NATIVE SON OFFENDS GROSSLY | 61 |
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