Lion and Kangaroo: Australia 1901–1919, the Rise of a Nation by Gavin Souter

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Light foxing to top foredge.

Lion and Kangaroo is one of Australia's great works of history, an extraordinarily rich chronicle of the nation's coming-of-age.

In this brilliantly detailed narrative, Gavin Souter captures with sparkling wit all the milestones of Australia's first decades, from the constitutional conventions of the nineteenth century to the turbulent years that followed the Great War.

Souter paints unforgettable portraits not only of Australia's first prime ministers and governors generals but of Tom Roberts labouring over his epic painting of the first parliament, Ross and Keith Simon, on their remarkable flight from London to Melbourne in 1919, and scores of other memorable characters. (publisher blurb)