Book Description
Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Stamps and stickers on inside. Wear to edges and corners, particularly at spine. Marks to foredges. Foxing marks on some pages. Dust jacket has creasing at edges.
The history of Western Australia is told through a selection of newspaper articles, journal and diary entries, speeches, songs, prose, extracts from novels and short stories and poems. More than one hundred writers are included - Kirwan Ward, Georgiana Molloy, Randolph Stow, Mary Durack, Elizabeth Bussell, Hammond Innes, Anthony Trollope, Katherine Susannah Prichard, Jack Davis, John Hepworth and Robert Drew.
The chapters are varied and cover exploration, early European settlement, the outback, convicts, gold mining, war, country towns, the sea, Perth, migration and diversity, and childhood.