Chequered Lives [electronic resource] : John Barton Hack and Stephen Hack and the early days of South Australia
Mathews, Iola2014
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"This 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. "As this detailed and
gripping account shows, there were no guarantees in the rough and tumble of
colonial life, and the ambitious Hack brothers encountered success and failure,
joy, tragedy, and family division. 'Chequered Lives...
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Author:
Mathews, Iola, Author
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[Place of publication not identified] : , 2014
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781743052983
Language:
English
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BRN:
434020
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |