Thomas Keneally's Australians (Three-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Editions, First Impressions
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Thomas Keneally's "Australians" trilogy stands as one of the most ambitious works of narrative history ever produced by an Australian author, a Booker Prize-winning novelist whose mastery of character and story transforms what might otherwise be dry chronicle into vivid, human-scale history, placing convicts, Aboriginal peoples, soldiers, gold-seekers, migrants, and politicians at the centre of a national story told across three substantial volumes that together carry the reader from the continent's geological formation and first European contact all the way to the political and social upheavals of the Vietnam era. "Australians: Origins to Eureka" (2009, 1st ed., 1st impr.,) opens with European settlement seen through Aboriginal eyes and carries the reader through the convict era, the pastoral frontier, and the explosive drama of the goldfields, culminating in the Eureka Stockade rebellion of 1854 as a defining moment in Australia's democratic character. "Australians: Eureka to the Diggers" (2011, 1st ed., 1st impr.,) picks up in the 1860s and traces the consolidation of colonial society, the push toward Federation, and Australia's shattering entry into the First World War, a conflict that forged and fractured the national identity in equal measure. "Australians: Flappers to Vietnam" (2014, 1st ed., 1st impr.,) brings the story into the twentieth century, charting the Great Depression, the rise of Fascism, the fall of Singapore, the American alliance, the Menzies era, postwar mass migration, and Australia's deepening and ultimately disastrous entanglement in the Vietnam War — closing the trilogy on a nation transformed beyond all recognition from the penal colony with which Keneally began.
Author: Thomas Keneally
Format: Hardback
Edition: First Editions, First Impressions
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Thomas Keneally's "Australians" trilogy stands as one of the most ambitious works of narrative history ever produced by an Australian author, a Booker Prize-winning novelist whose mastery of character and story transforms what might otherwise be dry chronicle into vivid, human-scale history, placing convicts, Aboriginal peoples, soldiers, gold-seekers, migrants, and politicians at the centre of a national story told across three substantial volumes that together carry the reader from the continent's geological formation and first European contact all the way to the political and social upheavals of the Vietnam era. "Australians: Origins to Eureka" (2009, 1st ed., 1st impr.,) opens with European settlement seen through Aboriginal eyes and carries the reader through the convict era, the pastoral frontier, and the explosive drama of the goldfields, culminating in the Eureka Stockade rebellion of 1854 as a defining moment in Australia's democratic character. "Australians: Eureka to the Diggers" (2011, 1st ed., 1st impr.,) picks up in the 1860s and traces the consolidation of colonial society, the push toward Federation, and Australia's shattering entry into the First World War, a conflict that forged and fractured the national identity in equal measure. "Australians: Flappers to Vietnam" (2014, 1st ed., 1st impr.,) brings the story into the twentieth century, charting the Great Depression, the rise of Fascism, the fall of Singapore, the American alliance, the Menzies era, postwar mass migration, and Australia's deepening and ultimately disastrous entanglement in the Vietnam War — closing the trilogy on a nation transformed beyond all recognition from the penal colony with which Keneally began.