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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... Captain Patrick Logan arrived to take over as commandant from Captain Bishop who had succeeded Captain Miller . Logan was a deeply divided man . Born in either 1792 or 1796 into a Scottish family which traced its ancestry back into the ...
... Captain Patrick Logan arrived to take over as commandant from Captain Bishop who had succeeded Captain Miller . Logan was a deeply divided man . Born in either 1792 or 1796 into a Scottish family which traced its ancestry back into the ...
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... Captain Collet Barker , one of those upright evangelicals , to take command of the new northern site . Barker arrived at Fort Wellington , Raffles Bay , on 13 September 1828 with a detach- ment of the 39th Regiment and twelve convicts ...
... Captain Collet Barker , one of those upright evangelicals , to take command of the new northern site . Barker arrived at Fort Wellington , Raffles Bay , on 13 September 1828 with a detach- ment of the 39th Regiment and twelve convicts ...
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... Captain Charles Sturt had arrived in London . The acclaim and preferment he had been awarded for his heroic journey down the Murray in 1829-30 had not come up to his expectations . The Barker report of a rich country near the mouth of ...
... Captain Charles Sturt had arrived in London . The acclaim and preferment he had been awarded for his heroic journey down the Murray in 1829-30 had not come up to his expectations . The Barker report of a rich country near the mouth of ...
Contents
ANOTHER PROVINCE FOR BRITAINS GENTRY | 17 |
A BRITISH PROVINCE WITH A LAUDABLE PURPOSE | 42 |
HIGH NOON FOR MORAL IMPROVERS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA | 73 |
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