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This biography of David Syme, a powerful man of many parts, seeks to go behind the legend and round out the story of his life - primarily as press 'baron' but also as theorist and author, financier, farmer, property developer and, not least, family man. Elizabeth Morrison is a historian of nineteenth-century Australian print culture

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Offers a fifty-year history of Victoria's country newspapers, beginning with James Harrison's ""Geelong Advertiser"" in 1840 and ending in December 1890 when 166 papers were being published in 122 country towns. This book identifies various press sites and newspapers of the era, whether long-lasting or short-lived.

(Paperback)

This biography of David Syme, a powerful man of many parts, seeks to go behind the legend and round out the story of his life - primarily as press 'baron' but also as theorist and author, financier, farmer, property developer and, not least, family man. Elizabeth Morrison is a historian of nineteenth-century Australian print culture