Macquarie

Grantlee Kieza, Peter Byrne

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Bolinda Audio Books
21 October 2019

Social & cultural anthropology; Audiobooks - Non-fiction

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Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping Australia's destiny, transforming a harsh, foreboding penal colony into an agricultural powerhouse and ultimately a prosperous society.

He also helped shape Australia's national character. An egalitarian at heart, Macquarie saw boundless potential in Britain's refuse, and under his rule many former convicts went on to become successful administrators, land owners and business people.

However, the governor's ambitions for the colony brought him into conflict with the continent's original landowners, and he was responsible for the deaths of Aboriginal men, women and children, brutally killed in a military operation intended to create terror among local Indigenous people.

So was Macquarie the man who sowed the seeds of a new nation, or a tyrant who destroyed Aboriginal resistance?

In this, the most comprehensive biography yet of this fascinating colonial governor, acclaimed biographer Grantlee Kieza draws on Macquarie's rich and detailed journals. Ultimately, Macquarie laid the foundations for a new nation, but, in the process, he played a part in the dispossession of the continent's first nations.

Lover, fighter, egalitarian, autocrat, Lachlan Macquarie is a complex and engaging character who first envisaged the nation we call Australia.

By: Grantlee Kieza
Read by: Peter Byrne
Imprint: Bolinda Audio Books
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions: Height: 134mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 410g
ISBN: 9780655642374
ISBN 10: 0655642374
Publication Date: 21 October 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: CD-Audio
Publisher's Status: Active