National Portraits by Vance Palmer

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page. Pages are sunned. Dust jacket has tears to the top edge, particularly at the spine. Dust jacket is now enclosed in a glossy protective dust jacket cover. Body text and binding are still very good.

In this book, Vance Palmer sketches the life work of certain figures in Australian History. He selects these figures because of their representative character or because, as true pioneers, they originated ideas and tapped springs that were to enrich the national life.

Includes brief biographies on John Macarthur, Lachlan Macquarie, John Batman, William Charles Wentworth, Charles Sturt, John Dunmore Lang, Sir Henry Parkes, Louis Buvelot, George Higinbotham, Ferdinand von Muller, Robert Christison, J F Archibald, W G Spence, Cardinal Moran, Edgeworth David, William Farrer, Henry Lawson, Alfred Deakin, H V McKay, Sir Denison Miller, Sir John Monash, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, Joseph Benedict Chifley, John Flynn, and Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin.