Media: paperback - 208 pages 
Author: E. Kwan
Year: 1987

From the Foreword
I his book fulfils a need long felt by South Australians, not only teachers and students but also general readers. It invites them to develop opinions based on a wide range of fascinating evidence, often presented from the 'ordinary' person's point of view: letters, diaries, photographs, cartoons, sketches, paintings and newspaper reports as well as graphs, diagrams and maps. Suggested by the History Teachers Association and the History Curriculum Committee for South Australia's sesquicentenary, it is one of several State and national projects informing and enthusing Australians about their past ...

From the Introduction
We hope you enjoy finding out and understanding how people in South Australia lived and what they thought. There are many different kinds of evidence for you to consider, including photographs and cartoons, graphs and tables, and extracts from diaries, letters and newspapers. Sometimes the evidence will be an historian's opinion ... This book is arranged thematically as well as chronologically. The central chapters, 'Lifestyles and Livelihoods', allow people of the past to tell their own stories through diaries, letters or interviews. The other chapters, 'People and the Landscape' and 'Town and Country', will help you to see those people against the background of their times and to imagine what life would have been like if you had been in their place. The last section, 'Overview and Review', provides general information which places South Australia in the wider context of Australia and the world.

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Notes on the Source Material
List of Abbreviations

PART I BEFORE 1870 1
Chapter 1 People and the Landscape: Old and New
Aboriginal Lands
European Interest
The Voyage Out
Arrival

Chapter2 Lifestyles and Livelihoods: Recreating the Familiar
Margaret May
Kudnarto
Edward Snell
Emily Clark

Chapter 3 Town and Country: Beginnings in Enterprise and Bureaucracy
Founding the Capital, Adelaide
The Spread of Settlement
A Network of Service Centres

PART II 1870-1914
Chapter 4 Lifestyles and Livelihoods: Victims and Victors
Anna Ey
John Venning
Tom Adams
Annie Duncan
Stan Whitford
The Burton Boys

Chapter 5 People and the Landscape: More Frontiers and a Sense of Belonging
The Push North
Riverland Frontier
Pushing the Frontier West and East
Country Towns: Signposts of the Frontier
Adelaide: Hub of the Frontiers
Becoming Australian

Chapter 6 Town and Country: Advance and Retreat
Advances in Communication and Transport
Improvements in Services
Production: Ups and Downs

OVERVIEW AND REVIEW

Select Chronologies
Aboriginal History (South Australia) to 1914
South Australian History to 1914
Australian History to 1914
World Inventions and Firsts to 1914
South Australian Firsts to 1914

Statistics
Population
Living Standards
Production
Transport

Biographies
Sir William Henry Bragg/Sir William Lawrence Bragg
Samuel Thomas Gill
George Woodroofe Goyder
John Hart
John Anderson Hartley
Charles Cameron Kingston
Mary Lee
Colonel William Light
Mother Mary Helen MacKillop
Sir Douglas Mawson
Johannes Menge
Catherine Helen Spence
Captain Charles Sturt
George Taplin
Sir Charles Todd

CHAPTER NOTES 178

BIBLIOGRAPHY 181

A Note on Newspaper Titles 187

INDEX 188