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"This is the story of a Currency Lad, born at Windsor on the Hawkesbury in the year of the first crossing of the Blue Mountains, when Australia was only twenty-five years old. The small convict settlement hardly seemed a propitious environment for poetry, but the first generation of Australians produced several poets, the most important being Charles Harpur" (- from 1962 edition).

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    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 1962 .
      Extent: xv, 334p.p.
      Description: illus., ports., map, bibl.
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      • Photocopy (includes bibliographical references) produced by La Trobe University Library (1981); held by some libraries.
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