| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 329 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Contents |
Part title; Title page; Contents; Note on the jacket; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Dramatis Personae; 1. Plucked from the putrescent file; 2. Currency lad; 3. A very valuable investment; 4. Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth; 5. A showdown looms; 6. Humiliation; 7. The first book; 8. A booby commissioner; 9. Transition; 10. Pleaders and papers; 11. Shoot the Attorney-General; 12. The calm before the storm; 13. The storm breaks; 14. A little cracked in the upper storey; 15. Darling embarrassed and embarrassing; 16. Vaucluse intrigue and celebration; 17. Echoes from the past; 18. Exit Wardell |
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19. The Australian Patriotic Association20. Wentworth buys up New Zealand; 21. Wentworth eclipses Macarthur; 22. Leader of the Opposition; 23. Counted out; 24. Allies fall out; 25. A squatter's constitution; 26. Wentworth demands self-government; 27. The Duke of Vaucluse; 28. Independence and federation; 29. Mr President; 30. His bones and his memory; Map: Colonial boundaries; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
An explorer, a master political manipulator, a barrister, a newspaper proprietor and a physical giant of a man who was afraid of nothing and no one, William Charles Wentworth was in every sense Australia's founding father. His story is the story of colonial Australia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-318) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Wentworth, W. C. (William Charles), 1790-1872.
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| SUBJECT |
Wentworth, W. C. (William Charles), 1790-1872 fast |
| Subject |
Politicians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Biography
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Politicians
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
New South Wales -- Politics and government -- 1788-1900
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New South Wales -- History -- 1788-1900
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| Subject |
New South Wales
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009483301 |
| ISBN |
9781741768749 |
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1741768748 |
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9786612403309 |
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6612403306 |
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