Manning Clark's History of Australia Abridged by Michael Cathcart

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Foxing to top foredge. Previous owner has inscribed inside front cover - partially hidden by dust jacket. Interior and binding are still very good. Dust jacket has creasing to edges and fading to spine.

Manning Clark's six-volume history is one of the masterpieces of Australian writing. It is also one of the most passionately debated visions of Australian history, in which the struggle to realise an Australian nation is played out on an epic scale.

This abridgment by Michael Cathcart re-orchestrates Manning Clark's 1962 six-volume classic on Australian history. Cathcart never loses sight of Clark's sympathies and understanding. Succinctly and imaginatively, he brings Clark to us, retaining all the magnificence of the original.