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| Shopify Unique ID: | 10561160904996 |
| Trademe Reference: | PR819 (105) |
| Category: |
Australia |
| New / Used: | New |
Description
THE FIRST DISMISSAL
by Luke Slattery
DESCRIPTION
ISBN: 9780143572473
Format: small laminated soft cover
Published: Penguin 2014
Size (mm): 105 w x 180 h x 15 d
Pages: 163
SKU: A5/2205/0161/K539
ABOUT
How Governor Macquarie invented an idea of Australia, a convict built it - and how Britain tried to tear it down.
While violent revolution and social upheaval rocked Europe, far away in New South Wales, Governor Lachlan Macquarie was sowing the seeds for the Australian idea of the 'fair go'. Macquarie was a reformer and an emancipator. He believed that a person's worth - be they gentry, infantry or convict - lay in what they were capable of doing, not what they had done in the past. He freed the brilliant, mercurial convict Francis Greenway and appointed him government architect for the buildings that would shape a new nation.
Luke Slattery breathes dramatic life into Australia's first political dismissal and, along the way, maps Macquarie and Greenway's bold collaborations and extraordinary architectural - and cultural - legacy.
CONDITION
As new with light shelf wear
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