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  • Michael Howe
    George Mackaness
    The Last & Worst of the BushrangersMichael Howe - Matthew BradyIn 1818, Thomas Wells wrote the first work of general literature published in Australia, describing the life of a British highwayman, convicted to Van Diemen’s Land; the bushranger Michael Howe (1787-1818). Howe and his gang plundered the New Norfolk and other early settled areas in Tasmania.Also included in this vo...
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson
    George Mackaness
    In the year 1890, Stevenson was living at Apia in Samoa where he had purchased some three hundred acres in the bush, two miles behind and six hundred feet above the level of the town, and on which he proposed to build a cottage for himself and his family. Why did he almost immediately leave Samoa to pay his first visit to Sydney? The answer, as he tells us himself, was not 'for...
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  • Notes of a Convict of 1838
    Francois Xavier Prieur / George Mackaness
    Translated and introduced by Dr George MackanessIn 1840, 50 French Canadian 'Patriotes' were exiled for their part in the uprising in the Quebec region of Canada. Their presence as convicts in the Longbottom Stockade in Concord, Sydney is recalled by the names of Exile Bay, France Bay and Canada Bay. One of these exiles was Francois Xavier Prieur:He was captured and tried at Mo...
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