David Collins : a colonial life / John Currey.

Carlton South (Vic) : Melbourne Univ Pr, 2000.

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Collins, David, -- 1756-1810.

Politicians -- Australia -- Biography.

Commonwealth law and history -- Australia.

Penal colonies -- History -- Australia.

Australia -- Politics and government -- History.

1. Servants of their king

2. War and confusion

3. Voyage to the unknown

4. Tranquillity defiled

5. Trust and discord

6. Letters from home

7. Children of nature

8. An Outcast of society

9. Home with expectations

10. Historian of the colony

11. In search of a patron

12. Bound for Bass's Strait

13. A Totally unfit place

14. Silence and neglect

15. Bigamist and debauchee

16. Money, rebellion and rebuke

17. An Insult to authority

18. Bligh's 'unhandsome conduct'

19. A Father to all.

Includes index.

0522849261

xiv, 390 p. ; ill