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Black Kettle & Full Moon: Daily Life in a Vanished Australia
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Ideal for readers interested in Australian history, early frontier life, and those who appreciate rich historical narratives.
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See moreA lively and fascinating journey into Australian daily life in the period from the first gold rushes to the World War One. Blainey paints a fascinating picture of how our forebears lived - in the outback, in towns and cities, at sea and on land.
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In this bestselling book, master storyteller Geoffrey Blainey takes us on an absorbing guided tour of a vanished Australia. Covering the years from the first gold rush to World War I, Blainey paints a fascinating picture of how our forebears lived—in the outback, in towns and cities, at sea, and on land.
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ISBN: 9780143002666
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 September 2004
Country: Australia
Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 32.0mm
Width: 131.0mm
Height: 199.0mm
Weight: 454g
Pages: 496
About the Author
Geoffrey Blainey is one of Australia's most significant and popular historians. He has written some 36 full-length books including The Tyranny of Distance, Triumph of the Nomads, Black Kettle and Full Moon, A Short History of the 20th Century, Sea of Dangers, A Short History of Christianity and the best-selling A Short History of the World. Professor Blainey held chairs in economic history and then in plain history at the University of Melbourne for 21 years. He was a delegate to the 1998 Constitutional Convention and also chaired various Commonwealth government bodies, including the Australia Council, the Literature Board, the Australia-China Council, and the National Council for the Centenary of Federation. He is one of the few Australians whose biography appears in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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