The Words That Made Australia: How a Nation Came to Know Itself

by Chris Feik and Robert Manne

This is not a book of documents, snippets or worthy speeches. Instead it presents the original essays and the moments of insight that told us what Australia is and could be.

These are the essential statements - from historians, reporters, novelists, mavericks and visionaries - that take us from Federation to the present-day, and tell a story of national self-discovery.

There is the Frenchman who saw that Australia was a 'workingman's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1863956441
• ISBN13: 9781863956444
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Black Inc. Agenda
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"