Black Kettle & Full Moon: Daily Life in a Vanished Australia : Daily Life in a Vanished Australia

Black Kettle & Full Moon: Daily Life in a Vanished Australia : Daily Life in a Vanished Australia
ISBN: 9780143002666
Publication Date: 1 September 2004

In the bestselling Black Kettle and Full Moon, master storyteller Geoffrey Blainey takes us on another absorbing journey - a 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. He looks at all aspects of daily life, from billycans to brass bands, from ice-making to etiquette, from pipes to pubs. The engaging text is further brought alive by an evocative selection of contemporary illustrations by artists such as Julian Ashton.

This is Geoffrey Blainey doing what he does best bringing to life for the modern reader the sighs and sounds and smells of another time.

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, 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.

NSW Premier's Literary Awards - Douglas Stewart Prize
Short-listed - 2004 for Black Kettle & Full Moon: Daily Life in a Vanished Australia

Westfield Waverley Library Award - Non-Fiction
Winner - 2004 for Black Kettle & Full Moon: Daily Life in a Vanish...