Manning Clark, A History of Australia ... From Earliest Times to 1838

C. M. H. Clark, A History of Australia. I. From the Earliest Times to the Age of Macquarie. [published in a single volume with] II. New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. 1822-1838.

Melbourne University Press, reprinted 1999.

This standard historical work was first published in two volumes (1962, 1968).

Large paperback, 422 + 364 pages, a few illustrations.

Excellent secondhand condition.

'Manning Clark's A History of Australia is one of the masterpieces of historical writing in the 20th Century. Passionate and drawn on an epic scale, his vision of the birth of a nation remains a keystone to the understanding of Australia's past.'