The brown land was green / Mavis Thorpe Clark ; illustrated by Harry Hudson
- Bib ID:
- 2240080
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Clark, Mavis Thorpe
- Description:
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- Melbourne : William Heinemann, 1956
- 219 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Series:
- Marcie Muir collection of Australian children's books.
- Summary:
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An emigrant family faces the problems of settling in Victoria in the 1840s ; they are particularly shocked by the brutal dispossession of the Aboriginal people.
- Notes:
- For children.
- Cited In:
- Muir, M. A bibliography of Australian children's books, 1575
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria -- Western District -- Treatment -- Juvenile fiction
- Girls -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Victoria -- Portland -- Juvenile fiction
- Literature and stories - Non indigenous - Fiction
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Literature and stories - Juvenile
- Settlement and contacts - Settlers
- Victoria -- History -- 1834-1851 -- Juvenile fiction
- Western District (Vic.) -- History -- Juvenile fiction
- Western District (W Vic SJ54-07)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Hudson, Harry
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Muir, Marcie. Marcie Muir collection of Australian children's books.
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1956
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