| Description |
xxxi, 127 pages ; 20 cm |
| Series |
Link history series |
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Link history series
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| Summary |
Apart from a reminder or two in the name of a street or a parliamentary electorate, or a plaque recording the site of his firs cottage, John Batman is one of the most neglected of Victoria's pioneers. Yet it was John Batman who, in June 1835, noted in his Journal of a spot about six miles up the Yarra River: "this will be the place for a village'. And for a brief four years he grazed his flock of sheep over a vast unoccupied territory, the occupier and presumptive owner of most of the land on which Melbourne now stands. First published in 1867, and reprinted the following year, James Bonwicks's life of Batman was written with undisguised bias, and a vindication of Batman's place in history as the founder of Melbourne and a pioneer of Port Phillip settlement, a claim hotly contested by the ebullient John Pascoe Fawkner |
| Analysis |
Victoria, 1835-1839. Batman, John, 1801-1839. Early works, 1868 |
| Notes |
First edition published, Melbourne: Samuel Mullen, 1867. Second edition published, Melbourne: Fergusson and Moore, 1868 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Batman, John, 1800-1839.
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Fawkner, John Pascoe, 1792-1869.
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Land settlement -- Australia -- Victoria -- Port Phillip District (Victoria)
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| SUBJECT |
Port Phillip District, Victoria -- History
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Victoria -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007556 -- 1834-1851
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Victoria -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007556 -- 1835-1839
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Victoria -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007556
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Sayers, C. E. (Charles Edward)
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| LC no. |
74196559 |
| ISBN |
0858850222 |
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