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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With him he was to take Hamilton Hume , the currency lad who had overlanded with Hovell in 1824 from Sydney town to the shores of Corio Bay , and a party of eleven other men . They set out from Sydney on 10 November 1828 on a journey ...
With him he was to take Hamilton Hume , the currency lad who had overlanded with Hovell in 1824 from Sydney town to the shores of Corio Bay , and a party of eleven other men . They set out from Sydney on 10 November 1828 on a journey ...
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... Sturt and his party of seven men embarked on the bosom of the Murrumbidgee , and made rapid progress between its gloomy banks till the afternoon of 13 January when one of the party , Hopkinson , called out that they were approaching ...
... Sturt and his party of seven men embarked on the bosom of the Murrumbidgee , and made rapid progress between its gloomy banks till the afternoon of 13 January when one of the party , Hopkinson , called out that they were approaching ...
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... were careless : the men in road parties lived by plunder : improper persons held licences for public houses . ... that he had not sought to muddy the waters of party controversy , that his concern had been with the higher matters of ...
... were careless : the men in road parties lived by plunder : improper persons held licences for public houses . ... that he had not sought to muddy the waters of party controversy , that his concern had been with the higher matters of ...
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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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