A Shorter History of Australia
By: Geoffrey Blainey
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
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Want to Read $ 12.99"The history of Australia, black or white, is not only the struggle between peoples but the struggle between nature and people. Nature tamed many of the settlers, sometimes defeating them, but people held many victories, sometimes at high cost."-Geoffrey Blainey, A Shorter History of Australia
"The history of Australia, black or white, is not only the struggle between peoples but the struggle between nature and people. Nature tamed many of the settlers, sometimes defeating them, but people held many victories, sometimes at high cost."-Geoffrey Blainey, A Shorter History of Australia
"The history of Australia, black or white, is not only the struggle between peoples but the struggle between nature and people. Nature tamed many of the settlers, sometimes defeating them, but people held many victories, sometimes at high cost."-Geoffrey Blainey, A Shorter History of Australia
"There is a delicate balance between shielding people and encouraging them, and the USA perhaps went too far in one direction and Australia in the other. The Soviet Union, born in 1917 and influenced a little by the exciting Australian and New Zealand experiments, would eventually show how the umbrella, if too big and cumbersome, exposed people far more than it protected them."-Geoffrey Blainey, A Shorter History of Australia
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