A History of Australia, Volume 4This fourth volume continues the story [of the history of Australia] from the discovery of gold in February 1851 to the centenary of the coming of European civilization to Australia on January 26 1888. Its vital theme concerns the debate in Australian about the life of man without God; and the impending breakdown of bourgeois society, succeeded by an age of ruins. |
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... Marcus Clarke hummed the lines of ' The Sick Stock Rider ' at the piano , while the tears kept rolling down his cheeks . For he had loved Gordon as only a man of imagination can love another man . The words also reminded Clarke of that ...
... Marcus Clarke hummed the lines of ' The Sick Stock Rider ' at the piano , while the tears kept rolling down his cheeks . For he had loved Gordon as only a man of imagination can love another man . The words also reminded Clarke of that ...
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... Marcus Clarke , ' Waterpool Near Coleraine by Louis Buvelôt ' in L. T. Hergenhan ( ed . ) , A Colonial City ( St Lucia , Brisbane , 1972 ) , pp . 361-5 ; Marcus Clarke , preface to A. L. Gordon , Sea Spray and Smoke Drift ( Melbourne ...
... Marcus Clarke , ' Waterpool Near Coleraine by Louis Buvelôt ' in L. T. Hergenhan ( ed . ) , A Colonial City ( St Lucia , Brisbane , 1972 ) , pp . 361-5 ; Marcus Clarke , preface to A. L. Gordon , Sea Spray and Smoke Drift ( Melbourne ...
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... Clarke , he believed the weird scribblings of nature in Australia were fashioning a new race of men . But unlike ... Marcus Clarke ( Mel- bourne , 1890 ) , pp . xvii - xxii ; Colonial Monthly , September 1869 ; M. Brodzky to A. G. ...
... Clarke , he believed the weird scribblings of nature in Australia were fashioning a new race of men . But unlike ... Marcus Clarke ( Mel- bourne , 1890 ) , pp . xvii - xxii ; Colonial Monthly , September 1869 ; M. Brodzky to A. G. ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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