Form of Taking Possession of Port Essington and Melville and Bathurst Islands, 20 & 26 September 1824 single work   prose  
Issue Details: First known date: 1922... 1922 Form of Taking Possession of Port Essington and Melville and Bathurst Islands, 20 & 26 September 1824
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  • Historical documents enclosed in letter from J. J. Gordon Bremer to Earl Bathurst, 11 November 1824.

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    y separately published work icon Historical Records of Australia vol. 5 1922 Z1393843 1922 periodical issue 1922 pg. 780-781
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    y separately published work icon North of the Ten Commandments : A Collection of Northern Territory Literature David Headon (editor), Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1991 Z54431 1991 anthology poetry short story prose correspondence extract

    'The writers and story-tellers included in this collection relate an important, even epic tale. They tell a story which in 1988 (white Australia's bicentennial year) rarely received attention because, while it tells of courage and love, it also focuses on killing and conquest, eccentricity and madness, and a land as hostile and murderous as it could be gentle and caring...' (Source: Preface)

         Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1991     pg. 18-19
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