The Words That Made Australia

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Black Inc
Publisher Place: Collingwood
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: First Edition

Description: 260 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The only exception are a few light age markings on the inside page.

Publishers Description: This is not a book of documents, snippets or worthy speeches. Instead it presents the original essays and the moments of insight that told us what Australia is and could be. These are the essential statements from historians, reporters, novelists, mavericks and visionaries that take us from Federation to the present-day, and tell a story of national self-discovery. There is the Frenchman who saw that Australia was a workingmans paradise, and the historian who explained why. The two reporters who realised the true significance of Gallipoli and conveyed it to the nation. Russel Ward on the Australian Legend, Robin Boyd on the Australian Ugliness, Donald Horne on the Lucky Country, W.E.H. Stanner on the Great Australian Silence and Anne Summers on Manzone Country. Real Matildas, Cultural Cringers, Future Eaters and Forgotten People and much more. Memorably written and cohesive, this is the essential sourcebook of the words that made Australia.

ISBN: 9781863955782