Australian history live!: eyewitness accounts from the past

Description

This book is a collection of virtual time-travellings back to Australia's past. Australian History Live! is a compelling look at Australian history using first person accounts as reported in the press and in journals and diaries. Included in the collection are gripping accounts of occasions both great and minor. Here you can find the heart wrenching account of a bewildered little terrier dog refusing to leave the bayoneted dead body of its master just killed at the Eureka Stockade. Read an amazing description of Bert Hinkler landing his absurdly tiny little aeroplane (he'd just flown it across.;Introduction; in high spirits and perfectly at their ease; their sensitive, long, pure-bred faces; crime fearfully depicted in their visages; they were crying and did not want to go; deck the halls with boughs of christmas bush; behold a flower from mount kosciuszko; these stupendous visitors; trespassing through extravagant sea-realms; gold! deliriously panting for the precious metal; that disgraced sunday; a prima donna in rich maroon velvet with constellations of diamonds; the gaze of the sorrowing throng above; the days of toil, the nights of agony.