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Black Kettle & Full Moon: Daily Life in a Vanished Australia
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Black Kettle & Full Moon: Daily Life in a Vanished Australia
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Geoffrey Blainey
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:496 | Dimensions(mm): Height 199,Width 131 |
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Category/Genre | World history |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780143002666
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Classifications | Dewey:994 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Penguin Random House Australia
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Imprint |
Penguin Random House Australia
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Publication Date |
1 September 2004 |
Publication Country |
Australia
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Description
In this bestselling book master story-teller 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.
Author Biography
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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