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1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce

dustytiger29's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

melbsreads's review against another edition

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4.0

It didn't suck me in *quite* as much as Van Diemen's Land did, but it was still great!

jjw's review against another edition

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challenging dark slow-paced

4.75

theogb451's review against another edition

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4.0

A good and interesting read that made a lot of things clearer about how the first peoples around Melbourne were systematically removed and why the usual excuses for this simply don't hold water. I was surprised at how many people in the mid-19th Century were already aware how the Aboriginal people were being destroyed and how badly we treated the country.
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