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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... Wentworth alone had an eye for the majesty of the occasion . For him it was like one of those moments when 7 For Wentworth at school near Bletchley see W. C. Wentworth and D'Arcy Wentworth jr to D'Arcy Wentworth , Bletchley , 24 July 1804 ( ...
... Wentworth alone had an eye for the majesty of the occasion . For him it was like one of those moments when 7 For Wentworth at school near Bletchley see W. C. Wentworth and D'Arcy Wentworth jr to D'Arcy Wentworth , Bletchley , 24 July 1804 ( ...
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... Wentworth who had a vision of what Australia might become once it was freed from the oppressor and the ' convicts ' clanking chains ' . He had a vision of men living in the colony as though they were in Arcady , of gay innocents who had ...
... Wentworth who had a vision of what Australia might become once it was freed from the oppressor and the ' convicts ' clanking chains ' . He had a vision of men living in the colony as though they were in Arcady , of gay innocents who had ...
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... Wentworth , unlike Hamlet , that other man driven to avenge evil done to his father and himself , wanted darker satisfaction than just the changing of a paragraph in a report to the House of Commons . In collaboration with Ed- ward ...
... Wentworth , unlike Hamlet , that other man driven to avenge evil done to his father and himself , wanted darker satisfaction than just the changing of a paragraph in a report to the House of Commons . In collaboration with Ed- ward ...
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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