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William Light: Adelaide, Kaurna Country and the Making of a City

William Light: Adelaide, Kaurna Country and the Making of a City

MacKenzie, Gordon J.

Paperback

Series: Shadows on the Map

Historical FiguresAustralia & OceaniaGeneral World History

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ISBN13: 9798261732525
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 16 2025
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

William Light is remembered as the man who fixed upon the site of the town and gave Adelaide its famous grid and parklands. For generations he stood on a pedestal as a solitary visionary; the city he planned was held up as proof that colonisation could be orderly, rational and humane.

This book strips away the bronze and follows Light from his mixed-heritage childhood in Penang through the battlefields of the Peninsular War, the drawing rooms of Europe and the deserts of Egypt to the raw South Australian frontier. It traces how a restless, self-confident officer of empire became Surveyor-General of a speculative systematic colony - and how his choice of site and street plan reshaped Kaurna country into a British city.

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