A History of Australia: From the earliest times to the age of MacquarieThe 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 development of white settlement in Australia. Clark uses the tragedies and successes of national heroes such as explorers and generals, and those of the average person such as soldiers at Gallipoli and farmers' wives, to create a memorable tableau. |
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... September 1795. On 11 September at the ceremony at which the Judge Advocate read his commission of office , he spoke with much delicacy of the persons sent to the colony for a certain offence , who , as chance would have it , kept at ...
... September 1795. On 11 September at the ceremony at which the Judge Advocate read his commission of office , he spoke with much delicacy of the persons sent to the colony for a certain offence , who , as chance would have it , kept at ...
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... September 1795 , John Macarthur set a plough drawn by horses and oxen to work on his farm at Parramatta , and Mrs Macarthur wrote with pride of this proof of the pro- gressive state of their infant settlement.84 The area under ...
... September 1795 , John Macarthur set a plough drawn by horses and oxen to work on his farm at Parramatta , and Mrs Macarthur wrote with pride of this proof of the pro- gressive state of their infant settlement.84 The area under ...
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Charles Manning Hope Clark. When they arrived in the Derwent on 12 September , Bowen chose Risdon Cove for the settlement , because of the stream of fresh water there . By 20 September he was finding every prospect in the Derwent ...
Charles Manning Hope Clark. When they arrived in the Derwent on 12 September , Bowen chose Risdon Cove for the settlement , because of the stream of fresh water there . By 20 September he was finding every prospect in the Derwent ...
Contents
THE SONS OF ENLIGHTENMENT | 42 |
THE CHOICE OF BOTANY BAY | 59 |
THE BEGINNING OF SYDNEY COVE | 73 |
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