Australia

by Phillip Knightley

Book Overview

Part history, part travelogue, part memoir, this is the inspiring story of how a one-time British colony, settled by only two kinds of citizens - convicts and jailers - turned itself into a proud,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0224050060
• ISBN13: 9780224050067
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Random House UK
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent

An insightful book into the fascinating history of Australia. Intriguing stories coupled with historical events make this a must have for anyone interested in Australian history.

Much is of great interest

This is a history-memoir type book, dealing pretty chronologically with Australia in the 20th century. Many chapters were of high interest, though one is not sure how objective the author is. It was annoying that there was not a single footnote, and that the bibliography did not list books alluded to in the text. The chapter detailing how the Aboriginals were allegedly treated in this century and even into the 1960s was appalling to me, tho Australia seems to have put the worst of that attitude behind it, what with the decisive repudiation of the One Nation Party in the last few years. The author expresses some highly opinionated views on subjects with little effort to tell the other side of the subject, presuming there is one. An interesting if not very scholarly effort.