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An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark by Mark McKenna
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Manning Clark was a complex, demanding and brilliant man. Mark McKenna's compelling biography of this giant of Australia's cultural landscape is informed by his reading of Clark's extensive private letters, journals and diaries--many that have never been read before.An Eye for Eternity paints a sweeping ...Show more
An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark by Mark McKenna
$54.99 AUD
Category: Biography
More than any other historian in the twentieth century, Manning Clark inspired the love and loathing of political parties, professional colleagues and the general public. Throughout his life, he played several roles: teacher, author of the epic "A History of Australia", anointed historian of the Austral ...Show more
An Eye for Eternity, the Life of Manning Clark by Mark McKenna
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Manning Clark was a complex, demanding and brilliant man. Mark McKenna's compelling biography of this giant of Australia's cultural landscape is informed by his reading of Clark's extensive private letters, journals and diaries-many that have never been read before. An Eye for Eternity paints a sweeping ...Show more
From the Edge: Australia's Lost Histories by Mark McKenna
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In March 1797, five British sailors and 12 Bengali seamen struggled ashore after their longboat broke apart in a storm. Their fellow-survivors from the wreck of the Sydney Cove were stranded more than 500 kilometres southeast in Bass Strait. To rescue their mates and to save themselves the 19 men must w ...Show more
Looking for Blackfella's Point: An Australian History of Place by Mark McKenna
$39.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
A history for every Australian who is interested in the story of settler-Australia's relations with Indigenous people--what happened between us, how we learnt to forget and, finally, how we came to confront the truth about our past and build a movement for reconciliation.
Quarterly Essay 69: Moment of Truth: History and Australia's Future by Mark McKenna
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Quarterly Essay
In this inspiring essay, Mark McKenna considers the role of history in making and unmaking the nation. From Captain Cook to the frontier wars, from Australia Day to the Uluru Statement, we are seeing passionate debates and fresh recognitions. McKenna argues that it is time to move beyond the history war ...Show more
Return to Uluru by Mark McKenna
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A killing. A hidden history. A story that goes to the heart of the nation. When Mark McKenna set out to write a history of the centre of Australia, he had no idea what he would discover. One event in 1934 - the shooting at Uluru of Aboriginal man Yokunnuna by white policeman Bill McKinnon, and subseque ...Show more
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