A History of Australia, Volume III: The Beginning of An Australian Civilization, 1824-1851

<p>First softcover edition. xvi, 492pp, plus occasional monochrome plate illustrations. In printed light card covers. 8vo. Covers a little brushed and faded, gently rubbed at edges in places, reader's creasing on spine. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring some pencil annotations of first leaf.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The third volume in Manning Clark's distinguished history of Australia takes the story to the moment of the discovery of gold and the separation of Victoria from New South Wales. A story of destruction as well as construction: The destruction of the aborigines and the construction of an essentially English bourgeois society and the taming of an alien and seemingly sterile land along the coastal country.</p>