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Australians: Origins to Eureka Main Edition
Author(s): Thomas Keneally (Author)
- Publisher: Allen & Unwin
- Publication Date: 1 Nov. 2010
- Edition: Main
- Language: English
- Print length: 640 pages
- ISBN-10: 1741750695
- ISBN-13: 9781741750690
Book Description
Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and soldiers, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers: bestselling author Thomas Keneally has woven their lives and their stories together in a vibrant history which does full justice to the rich and colourful nature of Australia’s unique national character. Taking the reader from pre-settlement to European occupation through to the Eureka Stockade of 1854, Keneally tells the story of Australia through its people. Were the first European mothers whores or matriarchs? Was the first generation of Australian children the luckiest or unluckiest on the planet? How did this often cruel and brutal penal experiment lead to a coherent civil society? To answer these and many more questions Keneally has brought to life the high and the low, the convict and the free of early Australian society.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Thomas Keneally demonstrates his mastery of narrative historical writing… Australians proceeds briskly, teems with colourful characters and is delivered in sparkling style.” –The Daily Express
“Keneally is undeniably skilful. His style is clean and swift and never impedes the narrative flow of the text. He uses all his novelistic flair to flesh out even brief scenes in a vivid way.” –The Irish Examiner
About the Author
Thomas Keneally won the Booker Prize in 1982 with Schindler’s Ark, later made into the Academy Award-winning film Schindler’s List by Steven Spielberg. His novels The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, Gossip from the Forest, and Confederates were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize, while Bring Larks and Heroes and Three Cheers for the Paraclete won the Miles Franklin Award.
