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The 'Dictionary of Australian Biography', by Percival Serle in 1949 includes 1030 concise biographies of Australians. These were men and women closely connected with Australia, and who died before the end of 1942.
The average length of each biography is about 640 words, and they can be roughly classified into the following twelve groups:
- Army and Navy
- Artists, including architects, actors, and musicians
- Governors and administrators
- Lawyers
- Literary men and women
- Notorieties
- Pioneers, explorers, pastoralists, men of business
- Politicians
- Scholars, philosophers, clergymen
- Scientists, including physicians, surgeons, and engineers
- Social reformers, philanthropists, educationists
- Sporting men (cricketers and athletes)
This CD contains high quality scanned images of the original books, and
has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed,
enlarged and printed out if required.
Click here to download a file of sample pages from this book Right click on the link and select "save as" - to a location on your hard drive. The sampler can be opened, navigated and searched as with the full CD file/s. Sample files usually contain the title page, contents, some introductory pages and sample pages from the body of the book. Often the complete index from the original book is included.
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System Requirements
- Any computer using Adobe (Acrobat) Reader 4 or later
- Adobe Reader 6 or later is recommended for CDs with searchable text
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