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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Chequered Lives : John Barton Hack and Stephen Hack and the Early Days of South Australia
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'Chequered Lives is the fascinating story of a Quaker family from England who camped on the beach in 1837 before the city of Adelaide was created, but rose to owning a 3000-acre estate in the Adelaide Hills. Barton Hack built his first house where the Adelaide Railway station now stands, became a merchant who owned ships, a whaling station and the first vineyard in the Province, and was chairman of the first Chamber of Commerce in Australia. His younger brother Stephen became a grazier and explorer. After they lost everything in the crash of 1841-1843, their lives took a very different turn. When Barton's great-great-granddaughter, journalist Iola Mathews, opened a trunk full of their letters, diaries and memoirs, she knew she had to write the family's story.' (Publication summary)

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    • Mile End, West Torrens area, Adelaide - South West, Adelaide, South Australia,: Wakefield Press , 2020 .
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      Extent: 322p.
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      • Published 19 December 2013
      ISBN: 9781743052587
Last amended 15 Jun 2020 12:42:11
Subjects:
  • Adelaide Hills, Adelaide, South Australia,
  • 1837
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