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Rotters and Squatters: 1820-1850 (Fair Dinkum Histories #3) by Jackie French
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Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
There were two tiny colonies at the end of the world-one in New South Wales and one in Van Diemen's Land-perched on the edge of a vast and mostly unmapped continent. There were four main towns-Sydney and Parramatta in New South Wales, and Hobart and Launceston in Van Diemen's Land. Radiating out from ar ...Show more
Rotters and Squatters (Fair Dinkum Histories #3) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
Rotters and Squatters continues the warts-and-all story of Australia from 1820 to 1850. This period saw new colonies founded and squatters spreading into new areas and taking the best land. Clashes with the Indigenous population were inevitable and often brutal. As the supply of convict labour dried up, ...Show more
Shipwreck, Sailors and 60,000 Years: Pre-1788 (Fair Dinkum Histories #1) by Jackie French
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Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
In 1493 the Pope gave Portugal the half of the world that included eastern Australia. By 1770 the Dutch had claimed the western, northern and southern coastlines of the continent-and Cook claimed the east coast for the British in 1770. But unlike the Europeans who claimed New Holland as their own, many ...Show more