Australia A Biography of a Nation

Australia celebrated one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the inspiring story of how a one-time British colony of convicts turned itself into a prosperous and confident country. Through the eyes of ordinary people, Phillip Knightley describes Australia's journey, from federation and the trauma of the First World War, the desperate poverty of the Depression, with its attendant spectres of secret armies and near-civil war, the threat of invasion in the Second World War and the immigration that followed it, and the slow but steady decline in the relationship with Britain, the 'Mother Country', as Australia forged its own unique identity.

ISBN:	9780099772910
Publisher:	Random House
Imprint:	Vintage
Published date:	06 Sep 2001
DEWEY:	994.04
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	373
Weight:	274g
Height:	196mm
Width:	132mm
Spine width:	24mm

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