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A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson

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Watkin Tench


Watkin Tench was a British marine officer who sailed with the First Fleet from England to Australia, landing in January 1788. He first wrote…

John Hepburn, Smeaton Hill

In Letters from Victorian Pioneers

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Various


A series of letters on the early occupation of the colony, the Aborigines, etc addressed by Victorian pioneers to his Excellency Charles Jos…

A Talk About Climbers

In Talks About Flowers

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Mary Decker Wellcome


To all Flower Lovers who may read these pages, we come with kindly greetings. To you we dedicate our Work. Encouraged by the many testimonia…

01 - Ch.1: Dostoevsky the Sensationalist

In Old and New Masters

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Robert Lynd


Jane Austen, WB Yeats, Chesterton, Shaw... these are personal and intelligent short essays on a selection of great (and great-ish) writers: …

Winter

In Florence Nightingale the Angel of the Crimea

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Laura E. Richards and Laura E. Howe Richards


One evening, some time after the great Crimean War of 1854-55, a company of military and naval officers met at dinner in London. They were t…