Australians: A Short History by Thomas Keneally

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers, Date due slip on inside page. RFID patch on inside back cover. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly at spine tail. Some pages have been dog-eared, and others have minor marks. Dust jacket is in very good condition with minor creasing to edges.

Australians, Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed three-volume history of the Australian people from Origins to Vietnam gave us a robust, vibrant and page-turning narrative that brought to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story.

Australians: A Short History brings these three volumes together and reintroduces us to the rich assortment of contradictory, inspiring and surprising characters who made a young and cocky Australia.

This is the story of the original Australians and European occupation of their land through the convict era to pastoralists, bushrangers and gold seekers, working men, pioneering women, the rifts wrought by World War I, the rise of hard-nosed radicals from the Left and the Right and the social upheavals of the Great Crash and World War II. Then, the Menzies era, the nation-changing period of post-war migration and Australia's engagement with Asia.

This is a masterly history of Australia and its people by an author of outstanding literary skill whose humanity permeates every page. (book flap)