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Harper Collins, Australia, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Book Reprint. Size: Large 8vo ( 9 to 11 inches). Item Type: Book. Gift inscription, neat, to preliminary pages. Minor marks and wear to book and jacket. ISBN/EAN: 9780733335907.. 9780733335907

ABC Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2019. Hardcover. 073333590X . Previous owner's inscription. Edges lightly foxed; 164 X 47 X 243 millimeters; 576 pages .

HardCover . 🔴 Condition - Good🔴Australian buyers can combine up to 5Kg of Books for the same postage charge.🟢 This Book weighs 1025 Grams.🟢 ** INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE ON THIS ITEM WILL REQUIRE AN ADDITIONAL CHARGE (weight is over 500 grams) **

ABC Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. 073333590X . Edges ever so lightly foxed; 164 X 47 X 243 millimeters; 576 pages .

ABC Books / Harper Collins, 2019. Hardcover in Dustjacket. FINE!. AUSTRALIANA      A lively and engaging portrait of a towering and complex figure of Australian colonial history. Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping Australia's destiny, transforming the harsh, foreboding penal colony of New Holland into an agricultural powerhouse and ultimately a prosperous society. He also helped shape Australia's national character. An egalitarian at heart, Macquarie saw boundless potential in Britain's refuse, and under his rule many former convicts went on to become successful administrators, land owners and business people. However, the governor's ambitions for the colony (which he lobbied to have renamed 'Australia') brought him into conflict with the continent's original landowners, and he was responsible for the deaths of Aboriginal men, women and children, brutally killed in a military operation intended to create terror among local Indigenous people. So, was Macquarie the man who sowed the… Read More