In this lively and very readable book, the eminent and controversial historian Manning Clark portrays the evolution of Australia with remarkable breadth of vision. Beginning with the Aborigines and the coming of white men, he reveals to us a vibrant land whose first European settlers were the criminal castaways of civilisation. In a new addendum to his father's lively and readable history, Sebastian Clark brings the work into the 1990s and speculates about the direction in which the nation is headed.
