Lion and Kangaroo: the Initiation of Australia: The Initiation of Australia - Softcover

Gavin Souter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1876485434 ISBN 13: 9781876485436

Publisher: Text Publishing, 2000

Synopsis

Winner of the Colin Roderick Award

 

Lion & Kangaroo is one of Australia’s great works of history, a rich chronicle of the nation’s coming-of-age.

 

With intelligence, wisdom and wit, acclaimed historian Gavin Souter captures all the milestones of Australia’s first decades, from the constitutional conventions of the nineteenth century to the turbulent years that followed World War I. Painting unforgettable portraits of scores of the most fascinating participants, he traces a national character in evolution.

 

Profound and insightful, it is impossible to comprehend contemporary Australia without first reading Lion & Kangaroo.

 

Praise for Lion & Kangaroo

 

‘A writer of great distinction ... This book is the work of a man who can impose on the chaos of the past an order that lifts the work into the realms of art without doing violence to the events or sacrificing the standards of scholarship as defined by the academics. It is a great achievement.’ – Manning Clark

 

‘A superb evocation of Australian life in the years between federation and the First World War, showing how imperial sentiment dominated our lives and left a vacuum in Australia’s national identity ... beautifully written, lucid, witty and compelling.’ – Gough Whitlam

About this title

About the Author:

Gavin Souter AO is the author of twelve works of non-fiction including A Peculiar People (1968), which won the Foundation of Australian Literary Studies award; Lion & Kangaroo (1976) which won the Colin Roderick Award; Company of Heralds (1981), which also won the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies award; and Heralds and Angels (1992), which won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award. In 1960, Gavin won a Walkley Award; in 1988 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM), and raised to Officer level (AO) in 1995; and in 2001 he was awarded the Centenary Medal. He lives in Sydney.

About this edition

• Publisher: Text Publishing
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1876485434
• ISBN 13: 9781876485436
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360