Old Hobart Town and environs, 1802-1855
Author: Carolyn R. Stone
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Published: 1996
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ISBN-13: 9788200590729
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Author: Carolyn R. Stone
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Published: 1996
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ISBN-13: 9788200590729
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carolyn R. Stone
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stuart D. Scott
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2013-03-11
Total Pages: 569
ISBN-13: 1475976739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of American historys lost stories, To the Outskirts of Habitable Creation is the fascinating account of American and Canadian convicts exiled to an Australian penal colony. In 1837 an armed rebellion at Toronto against the colonial administration of British Canada spilled across the border, and U.S. citizens joined the cause. The so-called Patriot War kept the frontier in a climate of fear and uncertainty as a series of battles in Canadian territory continued throughout 1838 in the hope of instigating political change. With the failure of each attempt to cross into Canada and revive the Rebellion, combatants were taken into custody. Trials resulted in hangings, acquittals, or pardons. One group of ninety-two prisoners, however, was sentenced to penal transportation for life in Australias far distant island of Van Diemens Land (Tasmania). Drawing on a wide variety of letters, diaries, and personal reminiscences, the author tells the story through the experiences of men and women who lived it. To the Outskirts... is more than the story of the Rebellion of 1837. It is also the story of one womans tenacious audacity that saved some of the men facing the gallows for their actions in the conflict.
Author: Bridget Griffin-Foley
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Published: 2014-03-19
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1743323824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLegendary media baron Sir Frank Packer was pugnacious, autocratic and always controversial. After joining forces with Labor politician E.G. Theodore to establish Australian Consolidated Press and the Women's Weekly in the 1930s, his empire grew to encompass newspapers, magazines and the Nine television network.
Author: Peter Bolger
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9789150050110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marjorie Tipping
Publisher: Ringwood, Vic., Australia : Viking O'Neil
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt home; Crimes of the Calcutta convicts; The camp at Sullivan Bay; The hobart towm of David Collins; From camp to colony.
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Published: 1931
Total Pages: 25
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Pascoe Fawkner
Publisher: Banks Society Publications
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780949586285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Pascoe Fawkner arrived in the Derwent with David Collins’ party in February 1804, and watched the birth of the settlement and its fight to survive during its e arly years. More than sixty years later he returned to Hobart Town to interview its early pioneers and to prepare his memoirs of those times.Fawkner’s memories were not always accurate (he was a boy when he arrived), and some of his accounts of events were based on hearsay or oral history. Nevertheless, his memoir is a valuable historical record, containing much information not found elsewhere. Unlike most other surviving accounts of early Hobart Town, it is written from the perspective of the free settler, and provides an insight into many aspects of daily life: encounters with Aborigines and bushrangers; fire, starvation and other hard ships of life on the land.It reflects what ordinary people thought, felt or believed, and adds a valuable human dimension to the scanty official records of the period.
Author: Michael Cannon
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 330
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes the creation of Australia's cities.