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Niel Black of Glenormiston, 1839–1880
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Niel Black, a Scot from Argyllshire, arrived in Melbourne in September intending to make his fortune. Ambitious and determined, Black became one of the most successful and energetic squatters in the Western District of Victoria – a livestock breeder and a Member of the Legislative Council. He was also a correspondent extraordinaire, and his letters to family, fellow pastoralists, colonial officials, and his chief UK business partner, Thomas Steuart Gladstone (and first cousin of the British prime minister), offer a unique insight into the time. Black's letters and journals, now held at the State Library Victoria, are the inspiration for this revelatory book written by his great-granddaughter.  Battles with local Aboriginal people, other settlers, Commissioners of Crown Lands and bush-fires, along with droughts, family feuds, multiple trips back to Scotland to find a wife and Black's rise to gentrified excess are all vividly brought to life.  'In this vivid, fast-moving book Niel Black comes to life' – Geoffrey Blainey 

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Maggie Black is a writer whose work up to now has been about development among poor and disadvantaged peoples, including histories of Oxfam and UNICEF (OUP 1992, 1996). This has been a surprisingly useful apprenticeship for a study of her great-grandfather s pioneering life in Victoria, with its themes of exclusion of local Indigenous people, development of farming practices and building a new society.
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September 1st, 2016
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  • General (US: Trade)
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344
Dimensions
220x210x25
ISBN-13
9781742235066
Product ID
25039339

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