| (Watkin Tench)
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| This account of the first three years of settlement in Australia by Europeans, who sailed to Australia on the First Fleet, is still very readable. Tench, a humane and intelligent man, describes the difficulties of cultivation, relations with the natives and other relevant topics.
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| (Ellen (Mrs Charles) Clacy)
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| This well-written and interesting story describes a visit by the author to the Australian gold fields in 1853.
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| (Watkin Tench)
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| Watkin Tench was a lieutenant on one of the ships of the First Fleet which sailed from England to Australia in 1788. This, his account of the voyage and the first months of the new settlement, includes details of the the departure, the convicts, the arrival and other relevant subjects. Written more than 200 years ago it is, nevertheless, still very readable today.
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| (Helen Simpson)
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| In this biography of Henry III, Simpson approaches her subject by comparing Henry's action with the art of government practised at the time, as outlined by Machiavelli in "The Prince," which was published about 1515. Henry III lived from 1491 to 1547.
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| (Marjorie Bowen)
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| On reading this biography of Mary Queen of Scots, Hugh Walpole remarked that "I found it quite impossible to lay down until I had finished it. This is, for me, the most exciting historical biography since Stefan Zweig's 'Marie Antoinette.'"
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| (Frederick Lewis Allen)
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| This book deals with that decade from the end of World War I in November 1918 to the depression of 1929-30. It tells of of Woodrow Wilson's defeat, the Harding scandals, the Coolidge prosperity, the revolution in manners and morals, the bull market and economic depression.
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| (William Westgarth)
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| Westgarth, an early Victorian merchant and historian, was chairman of the commission of enquiry into the Eureka rebellion. He was in Australia from 1840 to 1857, when he returned to England. He visited Australia again in 1888. This book has been described as "one of the most fascinating accounts of early Victoria ever written."
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| (Frederick Lewis Allen)
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| This is the sequel to "Only Yesterday" which was "an informal history of the 1920s."
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| (Ernest Shackleton)
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| This is an account of an attempt to make the first crossing of Antarctica, from sea to sea, by a British Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton.
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| (Frederick Lewis Allen)
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| As the author described it, "this book is an attempt to sketch some of the major changes which took place in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century." He went on to state that he had fixed his "chief attention upon the changes which have taken place in the character and quality of American life by reason of what might be called the democratization of our economic system, or the adjustment of capitalism to democratic ends; the way in which an incredible expansion of industrial and business activity, combined with a varied series of political, social and economic forces, has altered the American standard of living and with it the average American's way of thinking and his status as a citizen."
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| (G. K. Chesterton)
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| The Everlasting Man is a two-part history of mankind, Christ, and Christianity. The first part is titled "On the Creature Called Man" and the second part is titled "On the Man Called Christ."
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| (Arthur Kitson)
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| This biography of Cook includes many quotations from his journal and includes details of his three voyages, including his journey along the east coast of Australia. Many of the places he named on the voyage are mentioned.
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| (Roald Amundsen)
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| On 14 December 1911, Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition became the first to reach the South Pole, a month before the expedition led by Robert Scott. This is Amundsen's account of the journey, remarkable for the organised way in which it was executed.
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