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A New History of the Great Southern Land
By Welsh, Frank
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-1-58567-692-7
- Publisher
- Overlook Hardcover
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Reviewed on June 1, 2006
Welsh (The Four Nations: A History of the United Kingdom ) likes to tackle big projects. Noting at the outset that he is in fact English, he writes effusively about Australia, citing UN indexes on health, education, and other quality-of-life measures on which the country gets top marks, placing it among the finalists as "the most successful society in the world." He then details its unpromising start, showing that it was repeatedly passed over by explorers, who thought its promise as a colony was poor. AustraliaïÃ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
