A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888This 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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In that October of 1861 , as enthusiasts in Sydney were toasting the coming of a
golden age , news reached Melbourne and Sydney that Robert O ' Hara Burke ,
William John Wills and poor Charley Gray had perished in the centre of Australia
.
In that October of 1861 , as enthusiasts in Sydney were toasting the coming of a
golden age , news reached Melbourne and Sydney that Robert O ' Hara Burke ,
William John Wills and poor Charley Gray had perished in the centre of Australia
.
Page 165
He left for England on 22 October 1862 to take up residence as a country
gentleman at Wimborne in Dorset , not far from that village of Bockhampton
where the young Thomas Hardy first observed the disruption of rural England by
industrial ...
He left for England on 22 October 1862 to take up residence as a country
gentleman at Wimborne in Dorset , not far from that village of Bockhampton
where the young Thomas Hardy first observed the disruption of rural England by
industrial ...
Page 239
When the work was finished on 23 June 1872 , a fault developed in the line
between Port Darwin and Banjuwangi which was not finally repaired until 27
October . On that day , as Charles Todd put it , the ' Australian colonies were
connected ...
When the work was finished on 23 June 1872 , a fault developed in the line
between Port Darwin and Banjuwangi which was not finally repaired until 27
October . On that day , as Charles Todd put it , the ' Australian colonies were
connected ...
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PROLOGUE | 1 |
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
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| Title | A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888 Volume 4 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 4 of Dummy reekstitel |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 0522841473, 9780522841473 |
| Length | 427 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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