A Land Half Won
MacMillan, $19.95 pb, 361 pp
Australian History
In Dialogue with the Environment
by John Rickard •
Whatever would we do without Geoffrey Blainey? If he did not exist it would certainly be desirable to invent him. Of all our historians perhaps only Manning Clark reaches such a wide audience: but while Clark's epic history is pitched at a prophetic level, Blainey’s various works are, literally, much more down-to-earth affairs. Yet they are full of ideas, new insights and questionings of old orthodoxies.
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A Land Half Won
by Geoffrey Blainey
MacMillan, $19.95 pb, 361 pp
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