Australia
A Biography of a Nation
$30.69
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
7 September 2001
Summary
A grand encapsulation of all Australia, past and present – sharp, racy and irreverent.
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 pove…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099772910 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099772914 |
| Author: | R.M. Crawford, Phillip Knightley |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 7 September 2001 |
| Weight: | 274g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 131mm x 199mm |
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Critics Review
Catches the feel of Australia brilliantly. His 350 pages tell you more of Australia’s public history and secret life than any academic study ever could. Wonderful
Catches the feel of Australia brilliantly. His 350 pages tell you more of Australia’s public history and secret life than any academic study ever could. Wonderful * The Times *
Knightley deals skilfully and generously with all the great issues his country has faced * Independent *
Gripping and comprehensive * Irish Times *
A fine book…fascinating * Economist *
R.M. Crawford
Phillip Knightley is the author of ten non-fiction books. He is best known for The Second Oldest Profession and The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist and Myth Maker.
He has met nearly every spy chief on both sides during the Cold War and spent one week with the British traitor Kim Philby in Moscow in 1988, debriefing him just before he died.
For twenty years, he was a special correspondent for The Sunday Times and a member of the Insight Team. He is now the representative in Europe for the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and spends most of his time writing books and articles for publications around the world.
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