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But more importantly, with ruthless energy and a volcanic personality this 'convict brat' spent his life as an unrelenting advocate for comprehensive trial by jury, self-government and an Australian Confederation. Articulating a distinctly Australian identity to the world, he has a strong claim to be a founding father of modern Australia.  Wentworth's great personal achievements have been largely forgotten  - until now. Andrew Tink, who for nineteen years sat under the looming presence of Wentworth's portrait in the New South Wales Parliament, WC has turned his gaze to this great man of Australian history. The result is a biography that is long overdue and a fascinating and richly rewarding insight into the life of this complex man and the young nation he helped to create.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49576032993553,"sku":"GOR008233828","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/174331387X.jpg?v=1758967374"},{"product_id":"australia-1901-2001-book-andrew-tink-9781742234083","title":"Australia 1901-2001","description":"Andrew Tink's superb book tells the story of Australia in the 20th century, from Federation to the Sydney 2000 Olympics. It was a century marked by the trauma of war and the despair of the depression, balanced by extraordinary achievements in sport, science, and the arts. Tink's story is driven by people, whether they be prime ministers, soldiers, shopkeepers, singers, footballers, or farmers; men or women, Australian-born, immigrant, or Aborigine. He brings the decades to life, writing with empathy, humor, and insight to create a narrative that is as entertaining as it is illuminating.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49738028941585,"sku":"NGR9781742234083","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51258462404881,"sku":"NIN9781742234083","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52672164331793,"sku":"NLS9781742234083","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1742234089.jpg?v=1763220226"},{"product_id":"lord-sydney-book-andrew-tink-9781921875434","title":"Lord Sydney","description":"\"My Lords, The several Goals and Places for the Confinement of Felons in this Kingdom being in so crouded a State ... I ... signify to your Lordships His Majesty's Pleasure, that you do forthwith take such Measures as may be necessary for providing a proper number of vessels for the conveyance of 750 Convicts to Botany Bay, together with such Provisions, necessaries and Implements for agriculture as may be requisite for their use after their arrival ... \" When the British Cabinet accepted his recommendation that convicts be sent to Botany Bay, Lord Sydney-Thomas Townshend-instructed the Treasury 'forthwith' to provide for the First Fleet. A John Bull figure, full of bumptious ambition and self-confidence, 'Tommy' Townshend spent most of his working life in parliamentary opposition. He sympathised with the American colonists while holding true to British interests, and was made a peer in 1783 for his key role in settling the peace between Americans and Britons. Among other things, he saw to it that Canada's boundary with the United States was drawn through the Great Lakes, not further north, as the Americans had demanded. Townshend chose the name Sydney for his barony in memory of his distant uncle Algernon Sidney, who had been beheaded in 1683 for writing 'the people of England...may change or take away kings'. As a cabinet minister, though, he was measured and capable, displaying 'the rare faculty of perceiving intuitively, the latent powers in the men with whom he came in contact'. His choices of Henry Strachey to negotiate the peace with America and Arthur Phillip to lead Australia's first European settlement were inspired.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50051176988945,"sku":"GOR008959503","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1921875437.jpg?v=1751282052"},{"product_id":"air-disaster-canberra-book-andrew-tink-9781742231631","title":"Air Disaster Canberra","description":"Telling an engrossing and dramatic tale of a little-known aspect of Australia's political history, this book investigates the details of the August 1940 crash of a Hudson bomber--the A16-97--that killed three Australian cabinet ministers. The plane crashed into a ridge near Canberra and, in the ghastly inferno, the nation lost its key war leaders. Over the next 12 months, it became clear that the passing of Geoffrey Street, Sir Henry Gullett, and James Fairbairn had destabilized Robert Menzies' wartime government. As a direct but delayed consequence, John Curtin--widely regarded as one of the country's greatest wartime statesmen--became prime minister in October 1941. This book also controversially examines whether Air Minister Fairbairn, rather than the Royal Australian Air Force (RAF) pilot Bob Hitchcock, had been at the controls.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51258436256017,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51258437206289,"sku":"NIN9781742231631","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52620513149201,"sku":"NLS9781742231631","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1742231632.jpg?v=1750723128"},{"product_id":"honeysuckle-creek-book-andrew-tink-9781742236087","title":"Honeysuckle Creek","description":"Honeysuckle Creek reveals the pivotal role that the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra, played in the first moon landing. Andrew Tink gives a gripping account of the role of its director Tom Reid and his colleagues in transmitting some of the most-watched images in human history as Neil Armstrong took his first step.  Part biography and part personal history, this book makes a significant contribution to Australia’s role in space exploration and reveals a story little known until now.  As Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr, the director of flight operations for Apollo 11, acknowledged: ‘The name Honeysuckle Creek and the excellence which is implied by that name will always be remembered and recorded in the annals of manned space flight’.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51258495467793,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51258497466641,"sku":"NIN9781742236087","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52677111283985,"sku":"NLS9781742236087","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1742236081.jpg?v=1763223995"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-andrew-tink.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}