'Representative Men of South Australia' and 'Notable South Australians' are a pair of books containing brief biographies of great South Australian colonialists, written by George E. Loyau in 1883 and 1885 respectively.
A total of five hundred and fifty-four biographies of founders and pioneers of South Australia are included in these two books. They cover people in numerous different walks of life and range in length and detail. The books include information on their early life, their career, their role in South Australia's development and their families as well as other relevant information. Some biographies are accompanied by portrait drawings.
These books are useful for anyone interested in early South Australia and its most influential people.
Originally produced by Archive CD Books Australia in 2005, this title has now been remastered and re-released, and includes better searching capability. This CD contains high quality scanned images of the whole of the original book, and has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.
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Representative Men of South Australia
Notable South Australians
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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.
