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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Crowds milled round the offices of the Bathurst mail - coach to book a seat on the
coach . Within twenty - four hours two hundred persons set out for the diggings ,
some of them on foot , with their tin pots and stocks of provisions slung across ...
Crowds milled round the offices of the Bathurst mail - coach to book a seat on the
coach . Within twenty - four hours two hundred persons set out for the diggings ,
some of them on foot , with their tin pots and stocks of provisions slung across ...
Page 192
Here she had to make do with some Australian mistletoe , a pretty parasite ,
which she twined round the pictures on the parlour wall . All her life in the
Queensland bush she remained the great absentee at heart . Every day she
waited ...
Here she had to make do with some Australian mistletoe , a pretty parasite ,
which she twined round the pictures on the parlour wall . All her life in the
Queensland bush she remained the great absentee at heart . Every day she
waited ...
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24 While the Galatea was tumbling round in the swing of that very vast sea off the
coast of New South Wales , the Sydney Morning Herald was instructing the
people of Sydney in the meaning of the Prince ' s visit . They were to see the flag
on ...
24 While the Galatea was tumbling round in the swing of that very vast sea off the
coast of New South Wales , the Sydney Morning Herald was instructing the
people of Sydney in the meaning of the Prince ' s visit . They were to see the flag
on ...
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PROLOGUE | 1 |
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
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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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