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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... behaviour in the Indonesian archipelago , in all the behaviour to which they were driven by their greed as well as their vision of themselves as the intrepid soldiers of Christ and as the vessels for the destruction of a rival religion ...
... behaviour in the Indonesian archipelago , in all the behaviour to which they were driven by their greed as well as their vision of themselves as the intrepid soldiers of Christ and as the vessels for the destruction of a rival religion ...
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... behaviour . When the same clergyman on Drake's ship , the Pelican , first saw the natives of Patagonia , he was disgusted by one of their religious practices which consisted in offering backwards a loathsome sacrifice of their ...
... behaviour . When the same clergyman on Drake's ship , the Pelican , first saw the natives of Patagonia , he was disgusted by one of their religious practices which consisted in offering backwards a loathsome sacrifice of their ...
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... behaviour quickly changed the white man from a delighted observer of the picturesque and the quaint into a partisan defending his civilization . After six months , one of them wrote of the aborigine as a creature deformed by all those ...
... behaviour quickly changed the white man from a delighted observer of the picturesque and the quaint into a partisan defending his civilization . After six months , one of them wrote of the aborigine as a creature deformed by all those ...
Contents
THE SONS OF ENLIGHTENMENT | 42 |
THE CHOICE OF BOTANY BAY | 59 |
THE BEGINNING OF SYDNEY COVE | 73 |
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