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1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia

By James Boyce

Book information

Publisher
Black Inc.
Year
2013
ISBN
1921870958, 9781921870958
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
884 kB (904939 bytes)
Pages
256\0
Time added
2020-08-09 03:31:38

Description

WITH THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE IN 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent. in three years more land and more people were conquered than in the preceding fifty.In 1835 James Boyce brings this pivotal moment to life. He traces the power plays in Hobart, Sydney and London, and describes the key personalities of Melbourne's early days. He conjures up the Australian frontier its complexity, its rawness And The way its legacy is still with us today. and he asks the poignant question largely ignored for 175 years; could it have been different?With his first book, Van Diemen's Land Boyce introduced an utterly fresh approach To The nation's history. 'In re-imagining Australia's past,' Richard Flanagan wrote, 'it invents a new future.' 1835 continues this untold story.

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