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Chequered Lives: John Barton Hack and Stephen Hack and the early days of South Australia - Softcover
Chequered Lives 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 is a great story, fascinating and moving and very well told.' - Brian Matthews, Honorary Professor of English at Flinders University and award-winning biographer and columnist 'I couldn't put it down ...it is an important work about early South Australia, and particularly of the Society of Friends.' - Charles Stevenson, author of The Millionth Snowflake: The history of Quakers in South Australia
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"This work is an important, readable and informative addition to the growing library of early South Australiana."--Peter Brinkworth, the "Pioneer", Pioneers Association of South Australia "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' is a great story, fascinating and moving and very well told."--Brian Matthews, Honorary Professor of English at Flinders University and award-winning biographer and columnist
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- PublisherWakefield Press
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1743052588
- ISBN 13 9781743052587
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages322
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Book Description Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Journalist & author Iola Hack Mathews is John Barton Hack's great-great granddaughter. Illustrated in colour and b&w. With family tree at front. Includes appendix, notes, plus index. From rear cover: "Chequered Lives 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". Printed in Australia. A very nice clean tight solid softcover copy. ix + 291pp. SB-41. Seller Inventory # 035746
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First. 289 pp. Extremely light general and edgewear to illustrated covers. A couple of very small splotches to inside front cover and first page. All else as new. Illustrated with colour plates (paintings, photos, diagrams and maps). Includes endnotes and index. Size: Octavo. Seller Inventory # 007776
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Book Description Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. SIGNED & briefly INSCRIBED by co-author Iola Hack Mathews in black ink on title page: "Bette & Hugh, with love and best wishes, Iola". Journalist & author Iola Hack Mathews is John Barton Hack's great-great granddaughter. Illustrated in colour and b&w. With family tree at front. Includes appendix, notes, plus index. From rear cover: "Chequered Lives 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". Printed in Australia. A very nice clean tight solid softcover copy. ix + 291pp. Scarce signed copy. SB-17. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 034879
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Chequered Lives: John Barton Hack and Stephen Hack and the Early Days of South Australia by Iola Hack Mathews with Chris Durrant
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Minor mark to tail foredge. Tiny amount of chipping at tail spine. Interior and binding are still very good. Chequered Lives 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 own 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. (back cover). Seller Inventory # 005462
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