Preacher, Politician, Patriot
A Life of John Dunmore Lang
$73.64
- Paperback
1 pages
- Release Date
9 August 1994
Summary
In a cool, authoritative and gently ironic biography, Don Baker considers the life of the fiery founding father John Dunmore Lang.John Dunmore Lang had a finger in most pies in colonial New South Wales. He arrived in 1823, a young Presbyterian minister in search of a pulpit. Fifty years later his funeral befitted a founding father not only of the Presbyterian Church in Australia but of the nation itself.He established the Scots Church and his own secondary school, the Australian College. He w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522848229 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522848222 |
| Author: | Don Baker |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 9 August 1994 |
| Weight: | 314g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 141mm x 14mm |
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Don Baker
Don Baker was Reader in History at the Australian National University from 1965 to 1987. His most recent book is The Civilised Surveyor- Thomas Mitchell and the Australian Aborigines (Melbourne University Press, 1997).
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