A History Of Australia: Volume I: From The Earliest Times To The Age Of Macquarie
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: price clipped dj
Before Australia was a nation, it was a continent of ancient peoples, colonial ambition, and raw, uncharted wilderness — and no historian has chronicled its transformation with greater depth or passion than Manning Clark. A History of Australia: Volume I — From the Earliest Times to the Age of Macquarie charts the sweeping arc of the continent's story, from the Indigenous civilisations that shaped the land over millennia, through the tumultuous era of European settlement, convict transportation, and the formative governorship of Lachlan Macquarie, whose vision would lay the foundations of a modern nation. Clark's monumental six-volume history stands as one of the great works of Australian historical writing, celebrated for its richly literary prose, its moral seriousness, and its unflinching examination of the forces — religious, political, and human — that defined a society in the making. Drawing on primary sources and imbued with a novelist's eye for character and consequence, Clark presents history not merely as a sequence of events but as a profound human drama. This first volume is the essential starting point for any reader who wishes to truly understand how Australia came to be — and what it cost.
Author: C. M. H. Clark
Format: Hardback
Published: 1971, Melbourne University Press
Genre: Australian history
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: price clipped dj
Before Australia was a nation, it was a continent of ancient peoples, colonial ambition, and raw, uncharted wilderness — and no historian has chronicled its transformation with greater depth or passion than Manning Clark. A History of Australia: Volume I — From the Earliest Times to the Age of Macquarie charts the sweeping arc of the continent's story, from the Indigenous civilisations that shaped the land over millennia, through the tumultuous era of European settlement, convict transportation, and the formative governorship of Lachlan Macquarie, whose vision would lay the foundations of a modern nation. Clark's monumental six-volume history stands as one of the great works of Australian historical writing, celebrated for its richly literary prose, its moral seriousness, and its unflinching examination of the forces — religious, political, and human — that defined a society in the making. Drawing on primary sources and imbued with a novelist's eye for character and consequence, Clark presents history not merely as a sequence of events but as a profound human drama. This first volume is the essential starting point for any reader who wishes to truly understand how Australia came to be — and what it cost.