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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Again Wentworth snatched at the idea of vengeance : ' as soon as I get over the hurry of my work , I will pay him off in his own coin ' , he told his father . So that book , which had been suggested to him by young John Macarthur ...
Again Wentworth snatched at the idea of vengeance : ' as soon as I get over the hurry of my work , I will pay him off in his own coin ' , he told his father . So that book , which had been suggested to him by young John Macarthur ...
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There the son who had found his father's love to be wonderful to him , passing that of woman , and the woman whom D'Arcy had loved , now big with child by him , shed their tears , as the Reverend Samuel Marsden recited the words which ...
There the son who had found his father's love to be wonderful to him , passing that of woman , and the woman whom D'Arcy had loved , now big with child by him , shed their tears , as the Reverend Samuel Marsden recited the words which ...
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Like Wentworth , too , James Macarthur became in childhood and adolescence more like his mother than his father , a throw of chance which may have conferred on the former that inner turbulence , and that outer loudness of behaviour ...
Like Wentworth , too , James Macarthur became in childhood and adolescence more like his mother than his father , a throw of chance which may have conferred on the former that inner turbulence , and that outer loudness of behaviour ...
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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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| Title | A History of Australia: New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 1822-1838 Volume 2 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 |
| Authors | Charles Manning Hope Clark, Manning Clark |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Sep 2011 |
| ISBN | 0522838219, 9780522838213 |
| Length | 364 pages |
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