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Up Came a Squatter: Niel Black of Glenormiston, 1839–1880
Maggie Black
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paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JH; BGH; HBJM; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 220 x 25. Weight in Grams: 467.
Niel Black, a Scot from Argyllshire, arrived in Melbourne in September intending to make his fortune. Ambitious and determined, Black became one of the most successful and energetic squatters in the Western District of Victoria – a livestock breeder and a Member of the Legislative Council. He was also a correspondent extraordinaire, and his letters to family, fellow pastoralists, colonial officials, and his chief UK business partner, Thomas Steuart Gladstone (and first cousin of the British prime minister), offer a unique insight into the time. Black’s letters and journals, now held at the State Library Victoria, are the inspiration for ... Read more
Niel Black, a Scot from Argyllshire, arrived in Melbourne in September intending to make his fortune. Ambitious and determined, Black became one of the most successful and energetic squatters in the Western District of Victoria – a livestock breeder and a Member of the Legislative Council. He was also a correspondent extraordinaire, and his letters to family, fellow pastoralists, colonial officials, and his chief UK business partner, Thomas Steuart Gladstone (and first cousin of the British prime minister), offer a unique insight into the time. Black’s letters and journals, now held at the State Library Victoria, are the inspiration for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
NewSouth Australia
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Sydney, NSW, Australia
ISBN
9781742235066
SKU
V9781742235066
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About Maggie Black
Maggie Black is a writer whose work up to now has been about development among poor and disadvantaged peoples, including histories of Oxfam and UNICEF (OUP 1992, 1996). This has been a surprisingly useful apprenticeship for a study of her great-grandfather s pioneering life in Victoria, with its themes of exclusion of local Indigenous people, development of farming practices and ... Read more
Reviews for Up Came a Squatter: Niel Black of Glenormiston, 1839–1880
‘In this vivid, fast-moving book Niel Black comes to life’;– Geoffrey Blainey