The Australia Book

A beautiful full-scale facsimile edition of an Australian classic. When it won the 1952 Children’s Book of the Year Award, it was described as ‘one of the most beautiful and original books ever published for children in Australia’ – and that remains as true today as it was then. Complete with full-colour illustrations this book tells the history of Australia from the arrival of the first fleet right up to the time when the book was published in the early 1950s. The book works chronologically through key events including the Gold Rush, the Eureka Stockade and federation and also includes a number of well-known historical figures such as Burke and Wills, Ned Kelly and Sir Charles Kingsford Smith.