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Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed three volume history of the Australian people from origins to Vietnam gave us a robust, vibrant and page-turning narrative that brought to life the vast range of characters who have formed the Australian national story. Here these volumes are brought together for a story that encompasses original Australians and European occupation of their land, the convict era, pastoralists, bushrangers and gold seekers, working men, pioneering women, the rifts wrought by World War I, the rise of hard-nosed radicals from the Left and the Right and the social upheavals of the Great Crash and World War II. Then the Menzies era, the nation changing period of post-war migration and Australia's engagement with Asia. This is a truly masterly history of Australia and its people by an author of outstanding literary skill whose own humanity permeates every page.
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About the Author
Thomas Keneally is best-known for the Booker Prize-winning novel Schindler's Ark, which was adapted into the movie Schindler's List. His other titles include the Penguin Lives biography Abraham Lincoln, American Scoundrel, and A Commonwealth of Thieves. His other awards include the Miles Franklin Award, the Los Angeles Book Prize, The Royal Society of Literature Prize, the Scripter Award of the University of Southern California, the Mondello International Prize, and the Helmerich Prize.
Review
"Giving us what Australian history has desperately needed for years." —Canberra Times
"Keneally evokes these distant lives with concrete detail and vivid sympathy . . . his people inhabit the same world we do-we meet them without the hesitation of reaching across voids of space and time." —Sydney Morning Herald
"The story of Australia and the Australians could be in no better hands than Keneally's." —West Australian
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- PublisherAllen & Unwin
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1760292435
- ISBN 13 9781760292430
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages992
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